Non-Rayleigh Statistics of Ultrasonic Backscattered Signals

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 845-852

  Narayanan, V Manoj ^a   Shankar, P M ^a   Reid, John M ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

K DISTRIBUTION; NONRAYLEIGH STATISTICS; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTERED SIGNALS;

ULTRASONIC WAVES;

EID: 0028543046     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.330265     Document Type: Article

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