Improving accuracy in estimation of artery-wall displacement by referring to center frequency of RF echo

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-62

  Hasegawa, Hideyuki ^a,b,c,d,e   Kanai, Hiroshi ^{a,b,c,d,f,g,h,i}  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Acoustical Society of   (Japan)

^d Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine   (Japan)

^e Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

^f Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineering of Japan   (Japan)

^g Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers   (Japan)

^h Japan Society of Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering   (Japan)

ⁱ Japanese Circulation Society   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORRELATION ESTIMATORS; RF ECHO;

BLOOD; DEMODULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PHASE SHIFT;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MOVEMENT; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33144483797     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1588391     Document Type: Article

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