Dynamic noise correction for IVUS quantitative volume blood flow: Methods and numerical validation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1053-1060

  Lupotti, Fermin A ^a,b   De Korte, Chris L ^a   Mastik, Frits ^a   Van Der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficients; Dynamic noise suppression; Intravascular ultrasound; Quantitative transverse blood flow

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BLOOD; CORRELATION METHODS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

NOISE CORRECTION;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER MODEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0036706509     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00556-2     Document Type: Article

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