A new time-domain narrowband velocity estimation technique for doppler ultrasound flow imaging. part ii: comparative performance assessment

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 955-971

  Vaitkus, Peter J ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^b   Wayne Johnston, K ^b  

^a DEF AND CIV INST OF ENVIRON MED   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CRAMER-RAO BOUND (CRB); DOPPLER ULTRASONIC FLOW IMAGING; VELOCITY ESTIMATORS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032119949     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.710568     Document Type: Article

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