Blood Noise Reduction in Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 200-209

  Gronningsaeter, Aage ^a   Angelsen, Bjørn A J ^a   Torp, Hans G ^a   Gresli, Audun ^b   Linker, David T ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b AUROTECH Electronics AS ^*  (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BLOOD NOISE; BLOOD VELOCITIES; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGING; PLAQUE CHARACTERIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL LUMEN IMAGING; VITRO EXPERIMENTS;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

EID: 0029274704     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.365234     Document Type: Article

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