Detection of vascular haemodynamics through a high-speed velocity profiler

European Journal of Ultrasound

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 231-244

  Tortoli, Piero ^a   Guidi, Gabriele ^a   Guidi, Francesco ^a   Menicucci, Chiara ^a   Atzeni, Carlo ^a   Muchada, Raoul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Anesthesia and Intensive Care Dept E André Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Edge detection; Feature extraction; Peak frequency detection; Spectral analysis; Velocity profile

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; DOPPLER EFFECT; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEMODYNAMICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DOPPLER ULTRASOUND MULTIGATE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0032857155     PISSN: 09298266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-8266(99)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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