Performance of time-frequency representation techniques to measure blood flow turbulence with pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 535-550

  Cloutier, Guy ^a,b,c   Chen, Danmin ^a   Durand, Louis Gilles ^a  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart valve disease; Insufficiency; Regurgitation; Reynolds stress; Simulation; Spectral methods; Stenosis; Turbulence; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; BLOOD; FREQUENCIES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW MOTIONS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLOW; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONSTRICTION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 0035010674     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(00)00361-6     Document Type: Article

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