Performance of short-time spectral parametric methods for reducing the variance of the Doppler ultrasound mean instantaneous frequency estimation

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-297

  Sava, H ^a   Durand, L G ^a,b   Cloutier, Guy ^a,b  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Heart valve diseases; Mean velocity estimation; Spectral analysis techniques; Turbulence estimation

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TURBULENT FLOW; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY;

MEAN VELOCITY ESTIMATION; PRONY'S SPECTRAL METHOD;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; ERROR; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TURBULENT FLOW; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VARIANCE;

EID: 0033032917     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02513302     Document Type: Article

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