Acoustic backscatter and effective scatterer size estimates using a 2D CMUT transducer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4169-4183

  Liu, W ^a,e   Zagzebski, J A ^a,b   Hall, T J ^a,c   Madsen, E L ^a   Varghese, T ^a,c   Kliewer, M A ^b   Panda, S ^d   Lowery, C ^d   Barnes, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTICS; BACKSCATTERING; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ESTIMATION; INCLUSIONS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SEPARATION; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

2-D ARRAY; 2-D ARRAY TRANSDUCER; ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; BREAST TUMORS; CENTER FREQUENCIES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION CO-EFFICIENT; DE-CORRELATION; FREQUENCY RANGING; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HIGHER RESOLUTION; IN-VIVO; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCER; MEAN SIZE; PARAMETRIC IMAGING; RF SIGNALS; SCATTERER SIZE; SPHERICAL INCLUSIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROFABRICATED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; PHANTOM; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ACOUSTICS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 48349137102     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/15/011     Document Type: Article

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