Cross-imaging system comparison of backscatter coefficient estimates from a tissue-mimicking material

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1319-1324

  Nam, Kibo ^a   Rosado Mendez, Ivan M ^a   Wirtzfeld, Lauren A ^b   Kumar, Viksit ^c   Madsen, Ernest L ^a   Ghoshal, Goutam ^b   Pawlicki, Alexander D ^b   Oelze, Michael L ^b   Lavarello, Roberto J ^d   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)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; CLINICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS; CLINICAL SETTINGS; LABORATORY SYSTEM; PHANTOMS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; SYSTEMS COMPARISON; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER;

PHANTOMS;

EID: 84866285550     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4742725     Document Type: Article

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