A Unified Approach to Modeling the Backscattered Doppler Ultrasound from Blood

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 450-461

  Mo, Larry Y L ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING--DIAGNOSIS; VELOCIMETERS--ULTRASONIC DOPPLER;

BACKSCATTERED DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; DOPPLER SIGNAL SIMULATION MODEL; HEMATOCRIT; RED BLOOD CELLS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ERYTHROCYTE; STENOSIS;

BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026870052     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.135539     Document Type: Article

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