Stable and unbiased flow turbulence estimation from pulse echo ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1074-1087

  Zheng, Yi ^a  

^a ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; JETS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW;

COLOR FLOW IMAGING; PULSE ECHO ULTRASOUND; TWO-DIMENSIONAL AUTOCORRELATION METHODS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0033276972     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.796113     Document Type: Article

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