Attenuation estimations using envelope echo data: Analysis and simulations

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 377-386

  Tu, Haifeng ^a   Zagzebski, James ^a   Chen, Quan ^a  

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

Author keywords

Attenuation; Simulations; Tissue characterization; Video signal analysis

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATION; TRANSDUCERS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; VIDEO SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; ECHOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND; VIDEORECORDING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33644829420     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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