A model for estimating ultrasound attenuation along the propagation path to the fetus from backscattered waveforms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1210-1220

  Bigelow, Timothy A ^a   O'Brien Jr , William D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT TREATMENT; POWER TRANSMISSION;

MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; NONLINEAR EFFECTS; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION; VOLTAGE SPECTRUM;

ULTRASONIC EFFECTS;

AMNION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SOUND PRESSURE; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; SKULL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; WATER;

EID: 23744464935     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1945564     Document Type: Article

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