Absolute backscatter coefficient estimates of tissue-mimicking phantoms in the 5-50 MHz frequency range

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 737-743

  McCormick, Matthew M ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^a   Deaner, Meagan E ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE BACKSCATTER; BACK-SCATTERED; BROADBAND TRANSDUCERS; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FREQUENCY RANGES; GLASS BEAD; MEAN DIAMETER; PLANAR REFLECTORS; POWER-SPECTRA; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; RESEARCH SYSTEM; SCATTERING MODEL; SIGNAL SATURATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; THIN LAYERS; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASOUND SCANNING;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BACKSCATTERING; GLASS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; HYDROCARBONS; PHASE INTERFACES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

TISSUE;

GLASS; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; SEPHAROSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MILK; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLASS; MILK; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEPHAROSE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052495608     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3605669     Document Type: Article

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