Validity of a modified Born approximation for a pulsed plane wave in acoustic scattering problems

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2823-2836

  Saha, Ratan K ^a   Sharma, Subodh K ^b  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^b S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING;

BORN APPROXIMATION (BA); MODIFIED BORN APPROXIMATION (MBA); PULSED PLANE WAVE (PPW); VALIDATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ERROR; LIGHT SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 20044382055     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/12/007     Document Type: Article

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