Time-varying autoregressive spectral estimation for ultrasound attenuation in tissue characterization

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 650-659

  Girault, Jean Marc ^a   Ossant, Frédéric ^b   Ouahabi, Abdeljalil ^a   Kouamé, Denis ^b   Patat, Frédéric ^a  

^a LUSSI   (France)

^b LUSSI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

AUTO REGRESSIVE ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATIONS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032073323     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.677609     Document Type: Article

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