Attenuation estimation using spectral cross-correlation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 510-519

  Hyungsuk, Kim ^a,b   Varghese, Tomy ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) SIGNALS; SPECTRAL NOISE ARTIFACTS;

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; ULTRASONICS;

ELECTRIC ATTENUATORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947692735     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.274     Document Type: Article

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