On Understanding the Relationship Between Ultrasound Speckle and the Scattering Microstructure

Recent studies on the statistics of the envelope of the ultrasound echo signal from a random scattering medium suggest that the statistical moments of the signal may carry quantitative information about the scattering microstructure.

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