Effects of swept scanning on velocity estimation

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-20

  Jeng, Geng Shi ^a   Li, Pai Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Doppler flow estimation; High frequency ultrasound; Swept scanning; Vector velocity estimation; Space

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; SCANNING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; VECTOR SPACES; VELOCITY;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; FLOW ESTIMATION; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; SINGLE ELEMENT TRANSDUCERS; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SWEPT-SCANNING; VECTOR VELOCITIES; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 20844455928     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460502700101     Document Type: Article

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