Decorrelation of intravascular echo signals: Potentials for blood velocity estimation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3785-3794

  Li, Wenquang ^a,b   Lancée, Charles T ^a   Ignacio Cespedes E ^a,c   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b   Bom, Nicolaas ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c Endosonics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; HEMODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

DECORRELATION; ECHO SIGNALS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0031458690     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420141     Document Type: Article

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