Optimization of angular and frequency compounding in ultrasonic attenuation estimations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3307-3318

  Tu, Haifeng ^a   Zagzebski, James A ^a   Gerig, Anthony L ^a   Chen, Quan ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^a   Hall, Timothy J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCIES; FUNCTIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

COMPOUND ATTENUATION IMAGING METHODS; FREQUENCY COMPOUNDING; POWER SPECTRA ESTIMATES; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION;

ULTRASONIC WAVES;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; THEORY; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 18744382174     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1879212     Document Type: Article

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