Ultrasonic backscatter coefficients for weakly scattering, agar spheres in agar phantoms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 903-908

  King, Michael R ^a   Anderson, Janelle J ^b   Herd, Maria Teresa ^b   Ma, Darryl ^a   Haak, Alexander ^a   Wirtzfeld, Lauren A ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^b   Zagzebski, James A ^b   Oelze, Michael L ^b   Hall, Timothy J ^b   O'Brien Jr , William D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; FREQUENCY RANGES; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; THREE MODELS; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER; ULTRASOUND PHANTOM;

ALGAE; BACKSCATTERING; ULTRASONICS;

POLYSACCHARIDES;

AGAR; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MILK; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAFILTRATION;

AGAR; ANIMALS; MICROSPHERES; MILK; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRAFILTRATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955818594     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3460109     Document Type: Article

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