Microembolic signal description: A reappraisal based on a customized digital postprocessing system

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 11-12, 2002, Pages 1447-1455

  Mess, W H ^a,c   Willigers, J M ^a   Ledoux, L A F ^a   Ackerstaff, R G A ^b   Hoeks, A P G ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microembolic signals; Radiofrequency signal analysis; Transcranial Doppler sonography

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SURGERY; ULTRASONICS;

TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY (TCD);

MEDICINE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BEAM THERAPY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GAS EMBOLISM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROEMBOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL DETECTION; TIME; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

ARTIFACTS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EMBOLISM, AIR; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0036867938     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00618-X     Document Type: Article

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