Performance of various spectral estimation methods on acoustic backscatter coefficient estimation under data size limitations

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 49-52

  Rosado Mendez, Ivan M ^a   Nam, Kibo ^a   Hall, Timothy J ^a   Zagzebski, James A ^a  

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

Author keywords

backscatter coefficient; quantitative ultrasound; reference phantom; tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; DATA SIZE; ECHO SIGNALS; IN-VIVO; NON-SMOOTH; POWER SPECTRAL ESTIMATION; POWER-SPECTRA; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; REFERENCE PHANTOM; SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION METHODS; THOMSON; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; WELCH PERIODOGRAM;

BACKSCATTERING; POWER SPECTRUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84869069574     PISSN: 19485719     EISSN: 19485727     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2011.0013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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