Estimate of the attenuation coefficient using a clinical array transducer for the detection of cervical ripening in human pregnancy

Ultrasonics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-39

  Labyed, Yassin ^a   Bigelow, Timothy A ^a   McFarlin, Barbara L ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation estimation; Cervical ripening; Quantitative ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION ESTIMATION; ATTENUATION MAPS; CERVICAL RIPENING; DIAGNOSE SYMPTOMS; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; ECHO LINES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN DATA; HUMAN PATIENTS; IN-VIVO; INFANT MORTALITY; NATURAL VARIATION; PHANTOM DATA; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; REGION OF INTEREST; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION;

ALGORITHMS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TRANSDUCER; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING;

ALGORITHMS; CERVICAL RIPENING; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREGNANCY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77957963915     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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