High resolution 3D color flow mapping: Applied to the assessment of breast vasculature

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 293-304

  Ferrara, K Whittaker ^a   Zagar, B ^d   Sokil Melgar, J ^b   Algazi, V R ^c  

^a University of Virginia ^*  (United States)

^b RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Blood flow; Color flow mapping; Doppler; Three dimensional ultrasound; Wall filter

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS;

BLOOD FLOW; BREAST VASCULATURE; COLOR FLOW MAPPING; HIGH RESOLUTION VELOCITY ESTIMATION TECHNIQUE; MALIGNANT MASSES; WALL FILTER;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BREAST; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0029932690     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(95)02060-8     Document Type: Article

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