Statistics of scatterer property estimates

Quantitative Ultrasound in Soft Tissues

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 43-70

  Oelze, Michael L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Estimate bias; Estimate variance; Spatial resolution; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; POWER SPECTRUM; STATISTICS; ULTRASONICS;

AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; BACKSCATTERED POWER; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; ESTIMATE BIAS; ESTIMATE VARIANCE; PROPERTY ESTIMATION; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84938196478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6952-6_3     Document Type: Chapter

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