Ultrasonic attenuation and backscatter coefficient estimates of rodent-tumor-mimicking structures: Comparison of results among clinical scanners

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 233-250

  Nam, Kibo ^a   Rosado Mendez, Ivan M ^a   Wirtzfeld, Lauren A ^b   Pawliki, Alexander D ^b   Kumar, Viksit ^c   Madsen, Ernest L ^a   Ghoshal, Goutam ^b   Lavarello, Roberto J ^b   Oelze, Michael L ^b   Bigelow, Timothy A ^c   Zagzebski, James A ^a   O'Brien, William D ^b   Hall, Timothy J ^a  

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

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

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation coefficient; Backscatter coefficient; Phantom; Quantitative ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS;

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; ESTIMATION METHODOLOGIES; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION;

TUMORS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861082838     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173461103300403     Document Type: Article

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