Publication detail

Imaging of Ultrasound Attenuation Coefficient

JIŘÍK, R. TAXT, T. JAN, J.

Original Title

Imaging of Ultrasound Attenuation Coefficient

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper studies imaging of tissue-specific ultrasound attenuation. Ultrasound attenuation parameters are closely related to the type and the pathological state of the tissue. Therefore, the estimated attenuation parameters can be used as a feature in quantitative tissue characterization. Ultrasound attenuation is also an important factor affecting spatial resolution of ultrasound images since the higher ultrasonic frequencies are attenuated more than the lower ones. Knowing the attenuation as a function of frequency and depth allows estimation of the depth-dependent point spread function component caused by attenuation. This component can be used to improve the spatial resolution of the ultrasound image through deconvolution.

Keywords

Medical Ultrasound, Biosignal Processing

Authors

JIŘÍK, R.; TAXT, T.; JAN, J.

RIV year

2003

Released

17. 9. 2003

Location

Halle, Germany

Pages from

188

Pages to

188

Pages count

1

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT7969,
  author="Radovan {Jiřík} and Torfinn {Taxt} and Jiří {Jan}",
  title="Imaging of Ultrasound Attenuation Coefficient",
  booktitle="Abstracts of ESEM-ESAO Conference 2003",
  year="2003",
  pages="1",
  address="Halle, Germany"
}