Multiple scattering of ultrasound in weakly inhomogeneous media: Application to human soft tissues

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 225-233

  Aubry, Alexandre ^a   Derode, Arnaud ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION LOSS; ARRAY RESPONSE; BACK-SCATTERED; BREAST TISSUES; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; INHOMOGENEITIES; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; MATRIX; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RANDOM MATRIX THEORY; RANDOM MEDIUM; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SCATTERED WAVES; SCATTERING INTENSITY; SCATTERING LOSS; SINGLE SCATTERING; SOFT TISSUE; VALIDITY TESTS;

BORN APPROXIMATION; HISTOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; ULTRASONICS;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

AGAR; GELATIN;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ABSORPTION; AGAR; FEMALE; GELATIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 79551680249     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3506343     Document Type: Article

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