Imaging Local Scatterer Concentrations by the Nakagami Statistical Model

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 608-619

  Tsui, Po Hsiang ^a   Chang, Chien Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Nakagami distribution; Parametric image; Ultrasonic backscattering

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TISSUE;

NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTERING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947604774     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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