Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 33, Issue 11 , Pages 1681-1687 , November 2007

Reconstruction of Ultrasonic Sound Velocity and Attenuation Coefficient Using Linear Arrays: Clinical Assessment

  • Chen-Han Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Sheng-Wen Huang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Hsin-Chia Yang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yi-Hong Chou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Pai-Chi Li

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Pai-Chi Li, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan.

Received 2 November 2006 ,Revised 11 May 2007 ,Accepted 16 May 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.05.012

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 33, Issue 11 , Pages 1681-1687 , November 2007

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