In vivo ultrasound characterization of red blood cell aggregation using the structure factor size and attenuation estimator

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 301-304

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

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE ET D ACOUSTIQUE   (France)

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

Author keywords

Attenuation; Blood aggregation; In vivo; Structure factor; Ultrasound backscatter

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BACKSCATTERING; CELLS; HEMODYNAMICS; PROBES; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ATTENUATION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; IN-VIVO; RED BLOOD CELL AGGREGATION; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE FACTORS; ULTRASOUND BACKSCATTER; ULTRASOUND CHARACTERIZATION;

BLOOD;

EID: 77952829197     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5442032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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