Improved scatterer size estimation using backscatter coefficient measurements with coded excitation and pulse compression

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4599-4607

  Kanzler, Steven G ^a,b   Oelze, Michael L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b University of Applied Sciences Merseburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CERIUM; ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BIAS AND VARIANCE; CODED EXCITATION; ECHO SIGNALS; GLASS BEADS; MEDIAN DIAMETERS; ONE WAY; SCATTERER SIZE; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOMS; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER;

TISSUE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 44949151049     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2908293     Document Type: Article

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