Effects of beam steering in pulsed-wave ultrasound velocity estimation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1073-1082

  Steinman, Aaron H ^a   Yu, Alfred C H ^b   Johnston, K Wayne ^b,c   Cobbold, Richard S C ^b  

^a Vivosonic Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Flow phantom experiments; Flow velocity errors; Pulsatile flow; Simulations; Ultrasound array

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; PULSATILE FLOW; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VELOCITY CONTROL; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BEAM STEERING; FLOW PHANTOM EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VELOCITY ERRORS; ULTRASOUND ARRAY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR; FLOW RATE; GEOMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULSATILE FLOW; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 23644439244     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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