Sample Volume Misregistration in Linear Array-Based Dual Beam Doppler Ultrasound Systems

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 836-847

  Steel, Robin ^a   Fish, Peter J ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; IMPULSE RESPONSE; RAY TRACING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

VOLUME MISREGISTRATION;

ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SAMPLE SIZE; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTERIES; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0041762482     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1214503     Document Type: Article

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