A heterogeneous nonlinear attenuating full- wave model of ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 474-488

  Pinton, Gianmarco F ^a   Dahl, Jeremy ^b   Rosenzweig, Stephen ^b   Trahey, Gregg E ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC PROCESS; ARBITRARY FREQUENCIES; ATTENUATING MEDIUMS; ATTENUATION ,; ATTENUATION LAWS; BEAM-FORMING; BOUNDARY DEFINITIONS; CHARACTERISTIC IMPROVEMENTS; DELAY AND SUMS; DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUNDS; FIELD II; FINITE DIFFERENCES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC IMAGES; HARMONIC POINTS; HIGH-ORDER DISCRETIZATIONS; IN-SILICO; NON LINEARITIES; NONLINEAR COMPONENTS; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYERS; PLANE WAVE PROPAGATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS; SCATTERING TISSUES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPEED OF SOUNDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOLUTIONS; TIME DOMAINS; TRANSDUCER MODELING; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS; WAVE MODELS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; GALERKIN METHODS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; POWER SPECTRUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; WATER TANKS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 65349139522     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1066     Document Type: Article

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