A levy flight model for ultrasound in skin tissues

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2327-2331

  Pereyra, Marcelo A ^a   Batatia, Hadj ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BACK-SCATTERED; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; HEAVY-TAILED; LEVY FLIGHTS; NON-GAUSSIAN; POINT SCATTERING; SKIN TISSUE;

HISTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TISSUE;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 80054069818     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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