Method for estimating total attenuation from a spatial map of attenuation slope for quantitative ultrasound imaging

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 162-172

  Pawlicki, Alexander D ^a   O'Brien, William D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

attenuation; attenuation slope; parametric image; quantitative ultrasound imaging; total attenuation; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION SLOPE; PARAMETRIC IMAGE; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; TOTAL ATTENUATION;

PHANTOMS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875291008     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0161734613478695     Document Type: Article

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