Ultrasound skin characterization: An in vivo study of intra and inter individual variations

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1241-1244

  Lebertre, M ^a   Ossant, F ^a,b   Bouyer, J ^a   Vaillant, L ^a,b   Diridollou, S ^c   Patat, F ^a,b  

^a LUSSI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE PIERRE FABRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; SKIN; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ABDOMEN; FOREARM; FOREHEAD; INTEGRATED ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; INTEGRATED BACKSCATTERED COEFFICIENT;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 0035729060     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2001.991944     Document Type: Article

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5. Effective density estimators based on the k distribution: Interest of low and fractional order moments