Power Doppler: An advance over colour Doppler for transcranial imaging?

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 313-317

  Kenton, A R ^a   Martin, P J ^b   Evans, D H ^a  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal cerebral arteries; Transcranial colour coded sonography; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS;

BASAL CEREBRAL ARTERIES; COLOR MAP; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; POWER DOPPLER; TEMPORAL ACOUSTIC WINDOW; TRANSCRANIAL IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030000306     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(95)02045-4     Document Type: Article

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