A new clutter rejection algorithm for Doppler ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 530-538

  Cloutier, Guy ^a,b   Chen, Danmin ^c   Durand, Louis Gilles ^c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clutter filter; Echocardiography; Matching pursuit method; Simulation; Spectral method; Time frequency representation technique; Ultrasonography; Wall filter; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CLUTTER FILTER; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; MATCHING PURSUIT METHOD; SPECTRAL METHOD; TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WALL FILTER;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MOTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 0037941626     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.809059     Document Type: Article

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