Study of acoustic nonlinearity parameter imaging methods in reflection mode for biological tissues

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1819-1825

  Gong, Xiufen ^a   Zhang, Dong ^a   Liu, Jiehui ^a   Wang, Huanlei ^a   Yan, Yongsheng ^a   Xu, Xiaochen ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFLECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; HARMONIC WAVES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NECROSIS; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 4444225370     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1781709     Document Type: Article

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