Atherosclerotic plaque characterization by acoustic impedance analysis of intravascular ultrasound data

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1524-1527

  Bedekar, Devyani ^a,b   Nair, Anuja ^a   Vince, D Geoffrey ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ATTENUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; HISTOLOGY; LIPIDS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS); PLANE WAVE BORN APPROXIMATION (PWBA); TISSUE DENSITY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 4143123680     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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