Relationship between skin-collagen micro-architecture and ultrasonic backscatter parameters at 20 MHz

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 625-628

  Fournier, Céline ^a   Bridal, S Lori ^a   Coron, Alain ^a   Laugier, Pascal ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; COLLAGEN; DATA ACQUISITION; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; SKIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

INTEGRATED BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENT; MORPHOMETRICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC ACQUISITION; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0036992319     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2002.1193480     Document Type: Article

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