Effect of red cell clustering and anisotropy on ultrasound blood backscatter: A Monte Carlo study

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 94-103

  Savéry, David ^a,c   Cloutier, Guy ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BORN APPROXIMATION; RED BLOOD CELLS (RBC);

ACOUSTICS; ADHESION; ANISOTROPY; BLOOD; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL AGGREGATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL AGGREGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 13844256275     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1397353     Document Type: Article

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