Particle and voxel approaches for simulating ultrasound backscattering from tissue

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1237-1247

  Lim, B ^a   Bascom, P A J ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Tissue modeling; Ultrasonic scattering; Voxel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TISSUE; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

PULSED ULTRASOUND; VOXEL APPROACH;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY;

BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030470824     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(96)00145-7     Document Type: Article

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