A New Pulsed Wave Doppler Ultrasound System to Measure Blood Velocities Beyond the Nyquist Limit

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 265-279

  Nitzpon, H J ^a   Rajaonah, J C ^a   Burckhardt, C B ^a   Dousse, B ^a   Meister, J J ^b  

^a Kontron Instruments AG   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BLOOD VELOCITIES; NYQUIST LIMIT; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY; PULSED WAVE DOPPLER ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0029277467     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.365240     Document Type: Article

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