Experimental demonstration of the frequency dependence of the effective scatterer number density

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4 I, 1996, Pages 1932-1936

  Chen, Jian Feng ^a,b   Zagzebski, James A ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY; DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0029878366     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.415376     Document Type: Article

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