Technical limits in transcranial Doppler recording: Inadequate acoustic windows

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1275-1277

  Marinoni, Marinella ^a,b   Ginanneschi, Andrea ^a   Forleo, Paolo ^a   Amaducci, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Clinica Neurologica III   (Italy)

Author keywords

Occipital acoustic window; Temporal acoustic window; Transcranial Doppler; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BLOOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR PATIENTS; OCCIPITAL ACOUSTIC WINDOW; TEMPORAL ACOUSTIC WINDOW; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER RECORDING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHILD; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKULL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0030930056     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(97)00077-X     Document Type: Article

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