Computed tomography of the acoustic nonlinearity parameter B/A for biological tissues via difference frequency wave from a parametric array in reflection mode

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2427-2430

  Wang, Huanlei ^a   Zhu, Xiaofeng ^a   Gong, Xiufen ^a   Zhang, Dong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Difference frequency parametric array; Finite amplitude insert substitution method; Nonlinearity parameter B A

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748939198     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03ww0065     Document Type: Article

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