Estimating the total ultrasound attenuation along the propagation path by using a reference phantom

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3232-3238

  Labyed, Yassin ^a   Bigelow, Timothy A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

12 PULSE; ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; CLINICAL SETTINGS; DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; ECHO LINES; MODIFIED ALGORITHMS; PLANAR REFLECTORS; PROPAGATION PATHS; PULSE LENGTH; RADIO FREQUENCIES; REGION OF INTEREST; SCATTERER SIZE; SINGLE ELEMENT; STANDARD DEVIATION; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; TRANSMITTED PULSE; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION;

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; POWER SPECTRUM; STATISTICS; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649533299     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3483739     Document Type: Article

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