Trade-Offs in Data Acquisition and Processing Parameters for Backscatter and Scatterer Size Estimations

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 340-352

  Liu, Wu ^a,b   Zagzebski, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77952560080     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1414     Document Type: Article

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