Quantitative ultrasound estimates from populations of scatterers with continuous size distributions: Effects of the size estimator algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2066-2076

  Lavarello, Roberto ^a   Oelze, Michael ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BACKSCATTERING CROSS SECTION; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DIFFERENT SIZES; ESTIMATOR ALGORITHMS; FOCUSED TRANSDUCER; GEL SPHERES; GELATIN PHANTOMS; MINIMIZING THE MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; SCATTERING MODEL; ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUES;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; FREQUENCY BANDS; SCATTERING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84866708930     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2428     Document Type: Article

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