Ultrasound Attenuation Imaging Using Compound Acquisition and Processing

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 245-261

  Tu, Haifeng ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a,b   Madsen, Ernest L ^a   Chen, Quan ^a   Zagzebski, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Compounding; Frequency compounding; Imaging; Spatialcompounding; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COMPOUNDING (CHEMICAL); IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHANTOMS; ULTRASONICS;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION CONTRAST; ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; FREQUENCY COMPOUNDING; SPATIALCOMPOUNDING; SYSTEM DEPENDENCIES; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 1642528880     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460302500403     Document Type: Article

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