Design considerations for a transcranial doppler coupled to a stereotactic position arm

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-119

  Mignault, Keith ^a,b   Doblar, Dennis D ^a,b   Guthrie, Barton ^c   Fast, Don ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic window; Failed window; Stereotactic Doppler; Transcranial Doppler; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER EFFECT; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

STEREOTACTIC POSITION ARM; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER (TCD) SYSTEM;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ERROR; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0032946969     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(98)00155-0     Document Type: Article

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