Studies on Ultrasonic Scattering from Quasi-Periodic Structures

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

11 p.

Publication Date

1-1997

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Source Publication

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Source ISSN

0885-3010

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1109/58.585205

Abstract

This study extends the work done on nonuniform phase statistics by including additional results based on quasi-periodic scattering. Three parameters are used to predict the presence of regular structure within the region of interest. The signal-to-noise ratio of phase and the /spl chi//sup 2/ statistic resulting from conducting a goodness of fit test are two parameters used to verify whether the phase signal followed a uniform distribution. A third parameter, the power spectral density (PSD), was studied and its ability to provide information on the level of periodicity present was analyzed. Computer simulations and experiments on tissue mimicking phantoms were carried out, the results of which indicate that the parameters introduced in this paper have good potential in providing a better understanding of scattering from a collection of quasi-periodic scatterers.

Comments

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Vol. 44, No. 1 (January 1997): 114-124. DOI.

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

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