Identifying ultrasonic scattering sites from three-dimensional impedance maps

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 413-423

  Mamou, Jonathan ^a   Oelze, Michael L ^a   O'Brien Jr , William D ^a   Zachary, James F ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; HISTOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE; TUMORS;

BACKSCATTERED SIGNALS; COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOM; PARAMETERIZATION; POWER SPECTRUM;

ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; FIBROADENOMA; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RATS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 12344298662     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1810191     Document Type: Article

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