Estimating Mean Scatterer Spacing with the Frequency-Smoothed Spectral Autocorrelation Function

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 451-463

  Varghese, Tomy ^a   Donohue, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY; ULTRASONICS;

CEPSTRAL TECHNIQUE; MAGNITUDE SPECTRUM; MEAN SCATTERER SPACING; QUASIPERIODICITY; SPECTRAL AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION;

ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

EID: 0029304708     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.384455     Document Type: Article

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