Comparison of three scattering models for ultrasound blood characterization

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2321-2334

  Franceschini, Emilie ^a   Saha, Ratan K ^b   Cloutier, Guy ^c,d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D COMPUTER SIMULATIONS; AGGREGATION LEVEL; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; QUANTITATIVE PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; ULTRASOUND BLOOD CHARACTERIZATION;

BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; SCATTERING;

AGGREGATES;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BLOOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84887389740     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.6644736     Document Type: Article

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