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A Novel Pulse-Echo Attenuation Imaging Technique

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Acoustical Imaging

Part of the book series: Acoustical Imaging ((ACIM,volume 21))

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Frequency-dependent attenuation is one of the most marked features of wide-band ultrasound pulse propagation in human soft tissues. Specification of the functional dependence of the attenuation on frequency (in the diagnostic frequency range) is, to a large degree, a matter of choice - the most favoured being a simple power law, with non-integral index. In that case. there are two parameters which characterise the attenuation, and the values of both of these (or their progressive changes with disease) are widely regarded as conveying some information about the pathological state of the tissue.

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  1. Department of Medical Engineering and Physics, King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry, SE22 8PT, London, UK

    Sidney Leeman & Andrew J. Healey

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92717, USA

    Leonard Ferrari

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  1. Dept. of Radilogical Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92717, USA

    Joie Pierce Jones

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Leeman, S., Healey, A.J., Ferrari, L. (1995). A Novel Pulse-Echo Attenuation Imaging Technique. In: Jones, J.P. (eds) Acoustical Imaging. Acoustical Imaging, vol 21. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1943-0_47

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