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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by John G. Webster, Halit Eren
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1921 pages
82h 13m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
67-16 Medical, Biomedical, and Health
Scanner sensitivity is an important performance feature, especially because spatial resolution can be
en
hanced
wi
th
hi
gher-frequency
tr
ansducers
. Ho
wever,
th
is
is at th
e
ex
pense
of in
creased
ul
trasound
be
am
at
tenuation
an
d
po
orer
pe
netration
. Al
though
ab
solute
me
asurements
of se
nsitivity
of sc
anners
ha
ve
be
en
do
ne
[8
7],
mo
st
ce
nters
re
ly
up
on
cl
inically
me
aningful
“m
aximum
vi
sualization
di
stances”
[8
3,88]
fo
r
es
timating
an
d
co
mparing
se
nsitivity
. Ge
ometric
ac
curacy
al
so
is im
portant,
as im
ages
fr
e-
quently
ar
e
us
ed
to de
termine
st
ructure
di
mensions,
su
ch
as fe
tal
he
ad
siz
e
wh
en
de
termining
ge
s-
tational
ag ...
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