Measuring blood flow velocities based on three image processing techniques

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1187-1192

  Zeng, Yan Jun ^a,b   Zhang, Jian Hua ^b,c   Shen, Bing ^b   Diao, Yue ^b   Xu, Xiao Hu ^a   Xu, Hong ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood flow velocities; Cross correlation analysis; FFT; High speed video camera syste; Image segmentation; Template matching

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CORRELATION METHODS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FLOW VELOCITY; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MICROCIRCULATION; TEMPLATE MATCHING; VELOCITY; VIDEO CAMERAS;

AD HOC METHODS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM ALGORITHM; HIGH SPEED VIDEO CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; TEMPLATE-MATCHING ALGORITHMS;

BLOOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEVISION CAMERA;

EID: 17844407710     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1876652     Document Type: Article

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