Comparison of Time-Frequency Distribution Techniques for Analysis of Simulated Doppler Ultrasound Signals of the Femoral Artery

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 332-342

  Guo, Zhenyu ^a   Durand, Louis Gilles ^a   Lee, Howard C ^b  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS;

FEMORAL ARTERY; SIMULATED DOPPLER ULTRASOUND SIGNALS; TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0028420271     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.284961     Document Type: Article

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