FDTD simulations for ultrasound propagation in a 2-D breast model

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-34

  Manry, Charles W ^a   Broschat, Shira L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

FDTD simulations; higher order FDTD; ultrasound mammography; ultrasound tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; REFRACTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

FDTD SIMULATIONS; HIGHER-ORDER; TRANSMITTED FIELD; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION; ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030013826     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/uimg.1996.0003     Document Type: Article

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