Spatial variation of acoustic parameters in human skin: An in vitro study between 22 and 45 MHz

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 599-615

  Lebertre, Matthias ^a,d   Ossant, Frédéric ^a,b   Vaillant, Loc ^a,b   Diridollou, Stéphane ^c   Patat, Frédéric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE PIERRE FABRE   (France)

^d LUSSI FRE 2448 CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Backscattering coefficient; Human; Skin heterogeneity; Texture analysis; Tissue characterization; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTICS; ATTENUATION; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS;

SKIN;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SKIN; SKIN SURFACE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0036089542     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00500-8     Document Type: Article

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