Experimental assessment of four ultrasound scattering models for characterizing concentrated tissue-mimicking phantoms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3735-3747

  Franceschini, Emilie ^a   Guillermin, Régine ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FARAN MODEL; FOCUSED TRANSDUCER; FORWARD PROBLEM; GAUSSIAN MODEL; HIGH CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE MODEL; QUANTITATIVE PARAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES; RELATIVE ERRORS; SCATTERER CONCENTRATIONS; SCATTERER SIZE; SCATTERING MODEL; STRUCTURE FACTORS; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; ULTRASOUND SCATTERING;

INVERSE PROBLEMS; TISSUE;

SCATTERING;

MICROSPHERE; NYLON;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NYLONS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870946477     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4765072     Document Type: Article

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