Mechanisms for attenuation in cancellous-bone-mimicking phantoms

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2418-2425

  Wear, Keith A ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BROADBAND ULTRASOUND ATTENUATIONS; CANCELLOUS BONES; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURE RISKS; QUASILINEAR; SHEAR MODES;

ABSORPTION; FILAMENTS (LAMP); POLYAMIDES; RAYON; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

BONE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE; BONE MARROW; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BONE AND BONES; BONE MARROW; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 57049176558     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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