Use of Nakagami Distribution and Logarithmic Compression in Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization

A general statistical model for ultrasonic backscattering from tissues

P.M. Shankar · IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control · 2000 · 524 citations

Natural Sciences, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering +17

Deviations from Rayleigh Statistics in Ultrasonic Speckle

T.A. Tuthill, Robert Hammond Sperry, Kevin J. Parker · Ultrasonic Imaging · 1988 · 247 citations

Natural Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics +15

Classification of ultrasonic B-mode images of breast masses using Nakagami distribution

P.M. Shankar, V.A. Dumane, John M. Reid et al. · IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control · 2001 · 235 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology +17

Acoustic properties of normal and cancerous human liver—I. Dependence on pathological condition

Jeffrey C. Bamber, Christopher Hill · Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology · 1981 · 215 citations

Medicine, Oncology, Physics +15

Texture of B-Mode Echograms: 3-D Simulations and Experiments of the Effects of Diffraction and Scatterer Density

B.J. Oosterveld, J.M. Thijssen, W. A. Verhoef · Ultrasonic Imaging · 1985 · 201 citations

Natural Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology +17