Reflection and Scattering

Physical Principles of Medical Ultrasonics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 191-222

  Dickinson, R J ^a   Nassiri, D K ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic microscopy and reconstructing acoustic parameters; B scan image; Diffraction theory; Frequency dependence of scattering; Impediography approach; Information coding phenomenon; Scattering; Scattering measurements; Scattering theory by human tissue

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; SCATTERING;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; B-SCAN IMAGES; DIFFRACTION THEORY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HUMAN TISSUES; IMPEDIOGRAPHY APPROACH; INFORMATION CODING; SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 77949402136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470093978.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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