Assessment of accuracy of the structure-factor-size-estimator method in determining red blood cell aggregate size from ultrasound spectral backscatter coefficient

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2269-2277

  Saha, Ratan K ^a,c   Franceschini, Emilie ^b   Cloutier, Guy ^a,d  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE ET D ACOUSTIQUE   (France)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE SIZE; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BLOOD SAMPLES; CLUSTER SIZES; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HEXAGONAL CLOSE PACKING; LOW FREQUENCY; MEAN CLUSTER SIZE; MEAN SIZE; PACKING FACTOR; RED BLOOD CELL; SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; SPHERICAL AGGREGATES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER;

BACKSCATTERING; BLOOD; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; ULTRASONICS;

AGGREGATES;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL AGGREGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACOUSTICS; CELL AGGREGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79954540525     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3561653     Document Type: Article

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