Adaptive clutter filtering for ultrasound color flow imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1311-1320

  Yoo, Yang Mo ^a   Managuli, Ravi ^a   Kim, Yongmin ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive clutter filtering; Clutter filter; Color flow imaging; Polynomial regression filter; Projection initialized IIR filter; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COLOR; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADAPTIVE CLUTTER REJECTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASSAY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FILTER; FLOW RATE; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; TECHNIQUE; TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 0141527406     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(03)01014-7     Document Type: Article

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