Using Doppler signal power to detect changes in vessel size: A feasibility study using a wall-less flow phantom

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 593-602

  Deverson, Stephanie ^a   Evans, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beam shape; Doppler signal power; Filtering; Flow phantom; Transcranial Doppler ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DOPPLER EFFECT; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

CEREBRAL VESSELS; DOPPLER SIGNAL POWER; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND BEAM; WALL LESS FLOW PHANTOM;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; DIGITAL FILTERING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0034087178     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00148-9     Document Type: Article

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