Estimation of total attenuation and scatterer size from backscattered ultrasound waveforms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1431-1439

  Bigelow, Timothy A ^a   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

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BACKSCATTERED ECHOES; BACKSCATTERED ULTRASOUND WAVEFORMS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTION;

ATTENUATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 14844342757     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1858192     Document Type: Article

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