Method of improved scatterer size estimation and application to parametric imaging using ultrasound

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 3053-3063

  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

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CALCULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036988629     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1517064     Document Type: Article

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