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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrason Imaging. 2014 May 14;37(1):3–21. doi: 10.1177/0161734614534399

Table 1.

Effective scatterer diameter estimates (corresponding to the data shown in Fig. 6) obtained using the Gaussian form factor model (σGauss), exponential form factor model (σExp), and Faran theory (σFaran).

Distribution Model and Standard
Deviation
Effective Scatterer Diameter
σGauss σExp σFaran
Gaussian number density scaling, diameter standard deviation of 20% 78.2 µm 67.6 µm 56.0 µm
Gaussian volume fraction scaling, diameter standard deviation of 20% 71.8 µm 58.0 µm 52.1 µm
Gaussian number density scaling, diameter standard deviation of 60% 81.3 µm 87.4 µm 89.5 µm
Gaussian volume fraction scaling, diameter standard deviation of 60% 77.8 µm 73.3 µm 55.2 µm