Experimental Evaluation of Intrinsic and Nonstationary Ultrasonic Doppler Spectral Broadening in Steady and Pulsatile Flow Loop Models

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 786-795

  Cloutier, Guy ^a   Shung, K Kirk ^b   Durand, Louis Gilles ^a  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOWMETERS;

PULSATILE FLOW LOOP MODELS; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0027699694     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.248224     Document Type: Article

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