Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Language

eng

Format of Original

1 p.

Publication Date

5-1994

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America

Source Publication

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Source ISSN

0001-4966

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1121/1.409518

Abstract

The envelope of the backscattered signal from tissues can exhibit non‐Rayleigh statistics if the number density of scatterers is small or if the variations in the scattering cross sections are random. The K distribution which has been used extensively in radar, is introduced to model this non‐Rayleigh behavior. The generalized K distribution is extremely useful since it encompasses a wide range of distributions such as Rayleigh, Lognormal, and Rician. Computer simulations were conducted using a simple one‐dimensional discrete scatteringmodel to investigate the properties of the echo envelope. In addition to cases of low number densities, significant departures from Rayleigh statistics were seen as the scattering cross sections of the scatterers become random. The validity of this model was also tested using data from tissue mimicking phantoms. Results indicate that the density function of the envelope can be modeled by the K distribution and the parameters of the K distribution can provide information on the nature of the scattering region in terms of the number density of the scatterers as well as the scattering cross sections of the scatterers in the range cell. [Work was supported by NSF Grant No. BCS‐9207385.]

Comments

Published version. Published as part of the proceedings of the conference, 127th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 1994: 2854. DOI. © 1994 Acoustical Society of America. Used with permission.

Robert Molthen was affiliated with Drexel University at the time of publication.

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