General ultrasound speckle models in determining scatterer density

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4687, Issue , 2002, Pages 285-295

  Wachowiak, Mark P ^a   Smolíková, Renata ^a   Tourassi, Georgia D ^a   Elmaghraby, Adel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

K distribution; Nakagami distribution; Speckle; Statistical modeling; Tissue characterization; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

MEDICAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036030496     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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