Time domain attenuation estimation method from ultrasonic backscattered signals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 533-543

  Ghoshal, Goutam ^a   Oelze, Michael L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION ESTIMATION; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; BEAM WIDTHS; DATA BLOCKS; INSERTION LOSS MEASUREMENT; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PULSE LENGTH; TIME DOMAIN; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ESTIMATION; INSERTION LOSSES; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOUND DETECTION; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; LIVER; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RABBITS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84863672554     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4728195     Document Type: Article

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