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It was demonstrated how serious malfunctions of diagnostic ultrasonic equipment can be detected with the help of simple acoustic and electronic performance measurements. Furthermore, the benefit of these measurements for computer-assisted A-scan signal analysis was shown. A low-cost minicomputer system could be used to gain additional tissue differentiation data. These were — to a certain degree of approximation — free from the individual characteristics of the ultrasound system used, thus making diagnostic findings easier to be compared and valid in a more general sense.
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Haigis, W., Buschmann, W. (1983). Performance Measurements and Quantitative Echography. In: Hillman, J.S., Le May, M.M. (eds) Ophthalmic Ultrasonography. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7278-0_55
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