Ultrasound-based vessel wall tracking: An auto-correlation technique with RF center frequency estimation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 507-517

  Rabben, Stein Inge ^a   BjÆrum, Steinar ^b   SØrhus, Vidar ^c   Torp, Hans ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Ge Vingmed Ultrasound AS   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Cross correlation; Doppler; Echo tracking; Ultrasound; Vessel wall motion

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DOPPLER EFFECT; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

AUTOCORRELATION METHODS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; HEART CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RADIO WAVES; RHEOLOGY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0036277861     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00487-8     Document Type: Article

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