Frequency-dependent attenuation-compensation functions for ultrasonic signals backscattered from random media

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2308-2319

  Oelze, Michael L ^a   O'Brien Jr , William D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

RANDOM MEDIA;

ACOUSTICS;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0036096812     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1452743     Document Type: Article

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