Estimating the total ultrasound attenuation along the propagation path by applying multiple filters to backscattered echoes from a single spherically focused source

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 900-907

  Bigelow, Timothy A ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; BACKSCATTERED ECHOES; BENIGN AND MALIGNANT TUMORS; CENTER FREQUENCY; CORRELATION LENGTHS; FOCAL LENGTHS; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; GAUSSIAN SCATTERING; HOMOGENEOUS GLASS; HOMOGENEOUS TISSUES; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; MULTIPLE SOURCE; PATIENT SPECIFIC; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PROPAGATION PATHS; SINGLE SOURCE; TISSUE MICROSTRUCTURES; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY BANDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951039609     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1494     Document Type: Article

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