Noise signal propagation in soft biological tissues

Abstract

Mathematical models are formulated that discribe linear and nonlinear wave propagation in biological tissues. The basis of the method is evolutionary integro-differential equations with a kernel that takes into account the specific properties of tissue. An equation is obtained for the correlation function of acoustic noise in a medium with memory. The procedure for calculating the correlation function by the given type of kernel and noise spectrum at the entrance to the medium is described. It is shown that in different tissue, there is a difference in the laws of decrease in full intensity of a wideband signal with distance. It is demonstrated that the nonlinear equation in the limiting cases of “short-” and “long-term” memory reduces to equations that have been well studied in statistical nonlinear acoustics.