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In vitro studies using clutter-less phantom and high-frequency ultrasound suggested a possibility of evaluating the red blood cell (RBC) aggregation by analyzing the frequency dependence of the backscatter coefficient (BSC). However, in in vivo applications, clutter filtering is required to visualize echoes from the RBC. This study initially evaluated the effect of the clutter filter for ultrasonic BSC analysis for in vitro and preliminary in vivo data to characterize hemorheology. Coherently compounded plane wave imaging at a frame rate of 2 kHz was carried out in high-frame-rate imaging. Two samples of RBCs suspended by saline and autologous plasma for in vitro data were circulated in two types of flow phantoms without or with clutter signals. The singular value decomposition was applied to suppress the clutter signal in the flow phantom. The BSC was calculated using the reference phantom method, and it was parametrized by spectral slope and mid-band fit (MBF) between 4\u201312 MHz. The velocity distribution was estimated by the block matching method, and the shear rate was estimated by the least squares approximation of the slope near the wall. Consequently, the spectral slope of the saline sample was always around four (Rayleigh scattering), independently of the shear rate, because the RBCs did not aggregate in the solution. Conversely, the spectral slope of the plasma sample was lower than four at low shear rates but approached four by increasing the shear rate, because the aggregations were presumably dissolved by the high shear rate. Moreover, the MBF of the plasma sample decreased from \u221236 to \u221249 dB in both flow phantoms with increasing shear rates, from approximately 10 to 100 s\u22121. 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