Intervening attenuation affects first-order statistical properties of ultrasound echo signals

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-40

  Zagzebski, James A ^a,b   Chen, Jian Feng ^a,b   Dong, Fang ^a,b   Wilson, Thaddeus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Siemens Medical S vs Terns   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; RAYLEIGH STATISTICS; ULTRASOUND ECHO SIGNALS;

ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

EID: 0032794367     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.741421     Document Type: Article

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