Comparison of ultrasound attenuation and backscatter estimates in layered tissue-mimicking phantoms among three clinical scanners

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 209-221

  Nam, Kibo ^a   Rosado Mendez, Ivan M ^a   Wirtzfeld, Lauren A ^b   Ghoshal, Goutam ^b   Pawlicki, Alexander D ^b   Madsen, Ernest L ^a   Lavarello, Roberto J ^c   Oelze, Michael L ^b   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 PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Backscatter; Comparison; Inhomogeneity; Interlaboratory; Quantitative ultrasound; Tissue mimicking phantom; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ATTENUATION; COMPARISON; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTERLABORATORY; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM;

PHANTOMS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873203487     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0161734612464451     Document Type: Article

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