The wall signal removal in Doppler ultrasound systems based on recursive PCA

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 369-379

  Tao, Qian ^a   Wang, Yuanyuan ^a   Fish, Peter ^b   Wang, Weiqi ^a   Cardoso, Jose ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; High pass filter; PCA; Recursive process; SVD; Wall signal

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DOPPLER EFFECT; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); FLOW OF FLUIDS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND (US) SYSTEMS;

ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 1842455126     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2003.11.014     Document Type: Article

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