The use of the compound probability density function in ultrasonic tissue characterization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1007-1015

  Shankar, P M ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; ULTRASONICS;

PHANTOMS; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS;

TISSUE;

A SCAN; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ECHOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 1642528329     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/6/011     Document Type: Article

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