High-frequency color flow imaging of the microcirculation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-71

  Goertz, David E ^a   Christopher, Donald A ^a   Yu, Joanne L ^a   Kerbel, Robert S ^a   Burns, Peter N ^a   Foster, F Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Blood flow; Blood velocity; Color Doppler imaging; Color flow mapping; Doppler ultrasound; High frequency ultrasound; Microcirculation; Microvascular morphology

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROCIRCULATION; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

COLOR DOPPLER IMAGING (CFI); COLOR FLOW MAPPING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MICROCIRCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; EAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 0033983896     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00101-5     Document Type: Article

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