Ultrasonic tissue characterization using a generalized Nakagami model

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1716-1720

  Shankar, P Mohana ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

K DISTRIBUTION; NAKAGAMI MODEL; NAKAGAMI-GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION; THREE-PARAMETER DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE-MIMICKING PHANTOM; TWO- PARAMETER DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

IMAGE QUALITY; LETTER; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASOUND;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0035498435     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.971725     Document Type: Letter

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