Estimation of the Nakagami parameter from log-compressed ultrasonic backscattered envelopes (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-72

  Shankar, P M ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

IMAGE PIXELS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATION; ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUE;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; CALCULATION; COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; THEORY; ULTRASOUND;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037828472     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1581281     Document Type: Article

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