Signal processing strategies that improve performance and understanding of the quantitative ultrasound SPECTRAL FIT algorithm

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1808-1819

  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

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; FUNCTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE;

ELECTRONIC NOISE; FREQUENCY RANGE; LOG DOMAINS; POWER SPECTRUM;

ULTRASONICS;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 24944467368     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2000752     Document Type: Article

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