High-frequency ultrasound backscattering by blood: Analytical and semianalytical models of the erythrocyte cross section

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3963-3971

  Savéry, David ^a,b   Cloutier, Guy ^a  

^a NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b SUPERSONIC IMAGINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; BLOOD; BORN APPROXIMATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TISSUE;

ACOUSTIC INERTIA TENSORS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; ERYTHROCYTES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERERS; RED BLOOD CELL (RBC); ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTERING;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE STRUCTURE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

BLOOD; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 34249904658     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2715452     Document Type: Article

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