Autocorrelation of integrated power Doppler signals and its application

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1053-1057

  Chen, Jian Feng ^a   Fowlkes, J Brian ^b   Carson, Paul L ^b   Rubin, Jonathan M ^b   Adler, Ronald S ^b  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation function; Power Doppler signal; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

DOPPLER IMAGING SYSTEM; INSONIFIED MEDIUM; INTEGRATED POWER DOPPLER SIGNALS; PERFUSION EVALUATION; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; SCATTERING STRENGTHS; TEMPORAL AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0030461388     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(96)00141-X     Document Type: Article

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