Experimental investigation of the acoustic nonlinearity parameter tomography for excised pathological biological tissues

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 593-599

  Zhang, Dong ^a   Gong, Xiu Fen ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic nonlinearity parameter tomography; Pathological tissues; Tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TISSUE;

ACOUSTIC NONLINEARITY PARAMETER TOMOGRAPHY; EXCISED PATHOLOGICAL BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; KIDNEYS; LIVERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LINEAR SYSTEM; LIVER DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN DISEASE; SWINE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; REFERENCE VALUES; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VISCERA;

EID: 0032939469     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(98)00185-9     Document Type: Article

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