Beam steering in pulsed 'doppler' ultrasound velocity estimation

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1745-1748

  Steinman, Aaron H ^a   Lui, Elaine Y L ^a   Johnston, K Wayne ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beam Steering; Experiments; Pulsatile Flow; Simulation; Ultrasound Array; Velocity Errors

Indexed keywords

BEAM STEERING; SYSTOLIC VELOCITY; ULTRASOUND ARRAYS; VELOCITY ERRORS;

BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PULSATILE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 21644475447     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2004.1418163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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