In-vivo synthetic aperture flow imaging in medical ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 848-856

  Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TISSUE;

VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL; CAROTID ARTERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSELS; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0043265607     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1214504     Document Type: Article

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