A real time system for quantifying and displaying two-dimensional velocities using ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 751-761

  Bohs, Laurence N ^a   Friemel, Barry H ^a   McDermott, Bruce A ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angle independent flow; Colour flow Doppler; Colour vector display; Digital signal processing; Flow velocity; Nonaxial flow; Ultrasound; Vector velocity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE CODING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ANGLE INDEPENDENT FLOW; COLOR VECTOR DISPLAY; COLOUR FLOW DOPPLER; DOPPLER ALIASING LIMIT; FLOW VELOCITY; INTERFRAME SPECKLE PATTERN MOTION; NONAXIAL FLOW; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS PROCESSOR; SUM ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE (SAD) ALGORITHM; VECTOR VELOCITY;

ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0027717979     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(93)90092-3     Document Type: Article

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