Acoustical tissue nonlinearity characterization using bispectral analysis

Signal Processing

Volumn 53, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 117-131

  Kameyama, Keisuke ^a   Inoue, Toshikazu ^a   Demin, Igor Yu ^b   Kobayashi, Koichi ^b   Sato, Takuso ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISTORTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; DOPPLER EFFECT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL SOFT TISSUE NONLINEARITY; BISPECTRAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC PULSE DOPPLER METHOD;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030235571     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1684(96)00081-3     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. L. Bjørnø, "Nonlinear acoustics", in: R.W.B. Stephens and H.G. Leventhall, eds.. Acoustics and Vibration Progress, Vol. 2, Chapman and Hall, London, 1976.
2. D.T. Blackstock, "Propagation of plane sound waves of finite amplitude in nondissipative fluids", J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., Vol. 34, No. 1, 1962, pp. 9-30.
3. D.T. Blackstock, "Connection between the Fay and Fubini solutions for plane sound waves of finite amplitude", J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., Vol. 39, 1966, pp. 1019-1026.
4. D.R. Brillinger, Time Series - Data Analysis and Theory, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1975.
5. K. Fujii, T. Sato, K. Kameyama, T. Inoue, K. Yokoyama and K. Kobayashi, "Imaging system of precise hardness distribution in soft tissue in vivo using forced vibration and ultrasonic detection", Ultrasonic Imaging, Vol. 21, Plenum, New York, 1995, pp. 253-258.
6. C.L. Nikias and A.P. Petropulu, Higher-Order Spectra Analysis, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.
7. H.L. Oestreicher, "Field and impedance of an oscillating sphere in a viscoelastic medium with an application to biophysics", J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., Vol. 23, No. 6, 1951, p. 707.
8. Y. Yamakoshi, J. Sato and T. Sato, "Ultrasonic imaging of internal vibration of soft tissue under forced vibration", IEEE Trans. Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Freq. Contr., Vol. 37, No. 2, 1990, pp. 45-53.
9. G. Zhou and G.B. Giannakis, "Retrieval of self-coupled harmonics", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 43, No. 5, 1995, pp. 1173-1186.