Flow Velocity Profile via Time-Domain Correlation: Error Analysis and Computer Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 164-175

  Foster, Steven G ^a   Embree, Paul M ^b   O'Brien, William D ^c  

^a Nicolet ^*  (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL--WHITE NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VELOCIMETERS--ULTRASONIC DOPPLER;

FLOW VELOCITY PROFILE; JITTER; MULTIPLE SCATTERERS; TIME DOMAIN CORRELATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0025432134     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.55306     Document Type: Article

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