Density imaging using inverse scattering

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 793-802

  Lavarello, Roberto J ^a   Oelze, Michael L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATIONS; BORN ITERATIVE METHODS; CONSTANT DENSITIES; DENSITY CHANGES; DENSITY CONTRIBUTIONS; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DUAL FREQUENCIES; FULL WAVES; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; INVERSE SCATTERING ALGORITHMS; INVERSE SCATTERINGS; MULTIPLE FREQUENCIES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOUND SPEED; T MATRIXES; T-MATRIX METHODS; ULTRASONIC TOMOGRAPHIES;

ALGORITHMS; CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FADING (RADIO); FLUORESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; PRESSURE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOUND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 59849093404     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3050249     Document Type: Article

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