Theoretical and phantom based investigation of the impact of sound speed and backscatter variations on attenuation slope estimation

Ultrasonics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 758-767

  Omari, Eenas ^a,b   Lee, Heichang ^a,b   Varghese, Tomy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation coefficient; Backscatter coefficient; Quantitative ultrasound; Sound speed; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; SOUND SPEED; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; BACKSCATTERING; ESTIMATION; SPEED; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 79955774736     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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