Motion artifacts of pulse inversion-based tissue harmonic imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1203-1211

  Shen, Che Chou ^a   Li, Pai Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION COMPENSATION; ONE DIMENSIONAL; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

HARMONIC SIGNAL INTENSITY; PULSE INVERSION TECHNIQUE; SPECTRAL LEAKAGE; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; TISSUE HARMONIC SIGNAL;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY);

ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0036708539     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2002.1041536     Document Type: Article

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