Attenuation compensated spectral slopes during the kinetics of rouleaux formation for porcine whole blood in couette flow at 10-70 MHz

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 842-845

  Yu, F ^a   Savery D ^b,c   Amararene, A ^a   Foster, F S ^d   Cloutier, G ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b LBMU ^*

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backscatter coefficient; High frequency imaging; Red blood cell aggregation; Spectral slope; Ultrasound blood characterization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; AGGLOMERATION; BANDPASS FILTERS; BLOOD; CELLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATHOLOGY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY IMAGING; RED BLOOD CELLS (RBC) AGGREGATION; SPECTRAL SLOPES; ULTRASOUND BLOOD CHARACTERIZATION;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 21644466557     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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