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Background, Motivation and Objective Ultrasound-based measurement of absolute concentration of scatterers has a wide range of potential applications such as in microbiology, cell culture, and blood wo
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Background, Motivation and Objective Ultrasound-based measurement of absolute concentration of scatterers has a wide range of potential applications such as in microbiology, cell culture, and blood work. When the material is dilute and the scatterer size is similar to the wavelength of ultrasound, individual scatterers can be distinguished in the image. While the number of scatterers in the image can be counted, quantifying the image volume is challenging since the exact slice thickness is unknown. We propose a method for estimating the volume of image of a dilute monodispersed sample acquired with a mechanically scanned single element transducer. The method does not require prior characterization of the transducer or the setup.
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