A New Wideband Spread Target Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Blood Velocity Estimation—Part I: Theory

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 1-16

  Ferrara, Katherine W ^a,b   Algazi, V Ralph ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING - CORRELATION DETECTORS; VELOCIMETERS - ULTRASONIC DOPPLER;

AUTOCORRELATION; BLOOD VELOCITY ESTIMATOR; CRAMER-RAO BOUND; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; VELOCITY SPREAD ESTIMATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0026077013     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.67829     Document Type: Article

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