Harmonic amplitude distribution in a wideband ultrasonic wavefront after propagation through human abdominal wall and breast specimens

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1172-1183

  Liu, Dong Lai ^a   Waag, Robert C ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; WAVEFRONTS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BREASTS; GENERALIZED K DISTRIBUTION; HARMONIC AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN ABDOMINAL WALL; RANDOM WALK MODELS; ULTRASONIC WAVEFRONT DISTORTION;

ULTRASONIC DISTORTION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BREAST; ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; LINEAR SYSTEM; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABDOMEN; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0031081565     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418025     Document Type: Article

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