Improving the statistics of quantitative ultrasound techniques with deformation compounding: An experimental study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2066-2074

  Herd, Maria Teresa ^a   Hall, Timothy J ^b   Jiang, Jingfeng ^b   Zagzebski, James A ^b  

^a EARLHAM COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Backscatter; Compounding; Deformation; Motion tracking; Power spectrum; Quantitative ultrasound; Tissue characterization; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTER; MOTION TRACKING; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

BACKSCATTERING; COMPOUNDING (CHEMICAL); ESTIMATION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; POWER SPECTRUM; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

DEFORMATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENT; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEFORMATION COMPOUNDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMPEDANCE; PHANTOM; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITAIVE ULTRASOUND; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 82955248143     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.09.008     Document Type: Article

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