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In order to develop a new ultrasonics application to medicine, it is necessary to use effectively the information which the ultrasound possesses and to know the acoustic properties of the tissue in the normal and diseased states.
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Tanaka, M., Okawai, H., Chubachi, N., Suganuma, R., Honda, K. (1996). Acoustic Microscope for the Tissue Characterization in Medicine and Biology. In: Dunn, F., Tanaka, M., Ohtsuki, S., Saijo, Y. (eds) Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68382-7_10
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