Absolute backscatter coefficient over a wide range of frequencies in a tissue-mimicking phantom containing two populations of scatterers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 970-978

  Roberjot, Valéry ^a   Lori Bridal, S ^a   Laugier, Pascal ^a  

^a UPMC Univ Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ATTENUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM;

ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030241004     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.535501     Document Type: Article

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