Application of autoregressive methods to multigate spectral analysis

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 585-592

  Guidi, Gabriele ^a   Corti, Leonardo ^a   Tortoli, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoregressive spectral estimation; Burg's method; FFT; Flow profiles; Multigate; Specrtral analysis; Spectral variance; Ultrasound Doppler; Velocity profiles

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEMODYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS;

AUTOREGRESSIVE METHODS; BURG ALGORITHM; FLOW PROFILES; MULTIGATE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL VARIANCE; VELOCITY PROFILES;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTIFACTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REFERENCE VALUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0034037265     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(00)00145-9     Document Type: Article

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