Ultrasound characterization of red blood cell aggregation with intervening attenuating tissue-mimicking phantoms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1104-1115

  Franceschini, Emilie ^a,c   Yu, François T H ^a   Destrempes, François ^a   Cloutier, Guy ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Institute of Biomedical Engineering   (Canada)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE ET D ACOUSTIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BACK-SCATTERED; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BLOOD FLOW; COUETTE; FLOW DEVICES; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; IN-SITU; IN-VIVO; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL; RED BLOOD CELL; RED BLOOD CELL AGGREGATION; RELATIVE ERRORS; SPECTRAL CONTENT; STRUCTURE FACTORS; STRUCTURE PROPERTY; TISSUE ATTENUATION; TISSUE LAYERS; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY; ULTRASOUND CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS; WAVE NUMBERS; WIDE-BAND;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOINFORMATICS; CELLS; HEMOGLOBIN OXYGEN SATURATION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

BLOOD;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN; SWINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 76349125319     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3277200     Document Type: Article

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