Ultrasound Doppler vector tomography measurements of directional blood flow

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-57

  Jansson, Tomas ^a   Almqvist, Monica ^a   Stråhlén, Kent ^a   Eriksson, Roger ^a   Sparr, Gunnar ^a   Persson, Hans W ^a   Lindström, Kjell ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Continuous wave; Curl; Doppler; Tomography; Ultrasound; Vector fields; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; SCANNING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; CURL; ULTRASOUND DOPPLER VECTOR TOMOGRAPHY; VECTOR FIELDS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

BLOOD CIRCULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0031041787     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(96)00185-8     Document Type: Article

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