Research Article

Assessment of Homodyned K Distribution Modeling Ultrasonic Speckles from Scatterers with Varying Spatial Organizations

Table 3

The mean and standard deviation of the estimated parameters and likelihood values based on BIC from human subjects.

HKOKRR

LumenLHK = 610 ± 25LRA = 605 ± 24
σ = 0.12 ± 0.02d = 0.12 ± 0.03
c = 3.40 ± 0.12
ε = 0.24 ± 0.05

Intima-mediaLHK = 115 ± 37LK = 114 ± 34
σ = 0.24 ± 0.05m = 1.57 ± 0.17
c = 1.33 ± 0.24a = 7.23 ± 0.75
ε = 0.08 ± 0.01

MediaLHK = 350 ± 38LK = 351 ± 40
σ = 0.20 ± 0.03m = 0.83 ± 0.21
c = 1.00 ± 0.28a = 6.28 ± 0.68
ε = 0.01 ± 0.01

AdventitiaLHK = 1154 ± 56LRI = 1088 ± 42
σ = 0.12 ± 0.02l = 0.59 ± 0.12
c = 1.74 ± 0.45
ε = 0.61 ± 0.04