On the estimation of backscatter coefficients using single-element focused transducers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2903-2911

  Lavarello, Roberto J ^a   Ghoshal, Goutam ^a   Oelze, Michael L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-SCATTERED; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; CALIBRATION METHOD; DATA SETS; ESTIMATION METHODS; FOCAL LENGTHS; FOCUSED TRANSDUCER; FOCUSING GAIN; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; GLASS SPHERES; IMAGING METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

BACKSCATTERING; GLASS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TRANSDUCERS;

ESTIMATION;

AGAR; MICROSPHERE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE SIZE; TRANSDUCER;

AGAR; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; MICROSPHERES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959587248     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3557036     Document Type: Article

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