Ultrasound attenuation measurements using a reference phantom with sound speed mismatch

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 251-263

  Nam, Kibo ^a   Rosado Mendez, Ivan M ^a   Rubert, Nicholas C ^a   Madsen, Ernest L ^a   Zagzebski, James A ^a   Hall, Timothy J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Attenuation; Backscatter; Beamformer; Quantitative ultrasound; Reference phantom method; Speed of sound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BACKSCATTERING; BEAMFORMING; ERRORS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; BEAM FORMERS; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; REFERENCE PHANTOM METHOD; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION;

PHANTOMS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84861019740     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173461103300404     Document Type: Article

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