Adaptive clutter filtering via blind source separation for two-dimensional ultrasonic blood velocity measurement

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 193-214

  Gallippi, Caterina M ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind source separation; Bloodflow measurement; Clutter filter; Principal component analysis; Speckle tracking; Tissue motion tracking; Ultrasound; Wall filter

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BLOOD; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); FIR FILTERS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; IIR FILTERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOTION TRACKING; POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADAR CLUTTER; SPECKLE; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BLOOD FLOW; CLUTTER FILTERS; SPECKLE TRACKING; TISSUE MOTION; WALL FILTER;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

ADAPTATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; DECOMPOSITION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHASE SEPARATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0036821076     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460202400401     Document Type: Article

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