A consistent tissue attenuation coefficient estimator using bubble harmonic echoes

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2654-2661

  Tsao, Sheng Kai ^a   Tsao, Jenho ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BACKSCATTERING SIGNALS; BUBBLE OSCILLATION; ERGODICITY; ESTIMATION ERRORS; ESTIMATION METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL WORKS; FIRST HARMONIC; FUNDAMENTAL HARMONIC; HARMONIC SIGNALS; MICROBUBBLES; SECOND HARMONICS; SOFT TISSUE; STATISTICAL AVERAGING; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; TISSUE ATTENUATION; ULTRASONIC PROPERTIES;

BACKSCATTERING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OSCILLATING FLOW; SAMPLING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TISSUE;

ESTIMATION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650312807     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1739     Document Type: Article

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