Improved estimation of low velocities in color doppler imaging by adapting the mean frequency estimator to the clutter rejection filter

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 919-927

  Herment, Alain ^a   Demoment, Guy ^b   Dumée, Philippe ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); CORRELATION THEORY; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION; CLUTTER REJECTION FILTER; COLOR DOPPLER IMAGING; CORRELATION ANGLE ESTIMATOR;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIGITAL FILTERING; FILTER; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; PARAMETER; POWER SPECTRUM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; VELOCITY;

ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030248365     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.532126     Document Type: Article

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