Impact of local attenuation approximations when estimating correlation length from backscattered ultrasound echoes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 546-553

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

^a University of North Dakota   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERING; MICROSTRUCTURE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TISSUE;

BACKSCATTERED POWER SPECTRUM; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; GAUSSIAN IMPEDANCE DISTRIBUTIONS;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMPEDANCE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTRUM; THEORY; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745759752     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2208456     Document Type: Article

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