Review of Quantitative Ultrasound: Envelope Statistics and Backscatter Coefficient Imaging and Contributions to Diagnostic Ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 336-351

  Oelze, Michael L ^a   Mamou, Jonathan ^b  

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

^b RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter coefficients; envelope statistics; quantitative ultrasound; tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOPSY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PARAMETERIZATION; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STATISTICS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATIONS; DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITIES; ENVELOPE STATISTICS; MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

BIOPSY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION SCATTERING;

BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84962030620     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2015.2513958     Document Type: Review

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