Simultaneous estimation of attenuation and structure parameters of aggregated red blood cells from backscatter measurements

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Franceschini, Emilie ^a   Yu, François T H ^a   Cloutier, Guy ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; BLOOD; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC WAVES; WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS;

ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTER MEASUREMENTS; RED BLOOD CELLS; STRUCTURE PARAMETERS;

CELL CULTURE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; HEMATOCRIT; PLASMA; SKIN; SWINE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 41849116340     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2896115     Document Type: Article

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