Modeling and phantom studies of ultrasonic wall shear rate measurements using coded pulse excitation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 724-734

  Tsou, Jean K ^a,b   Liu, Jie ^a,c   Insana, Michael F ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e Institute of Physics

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODED PULSES; ENDOTHELIAL CELL (EC); VESSEL RADIUS; WALL SHEAR RATE (WSR); ACCURACY AND PRECISION; COHERENCE ENHANCEMENT; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INSTANTANEOUS POWER; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS;

BANDWIDTH; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LASER PULSES; SHEAR WALLS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; BLOOD; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ERRORS; LAMINAR FLOW;

ULTRASONICS; CODES (SYMBOLS);

ANIMAL; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SHEAR STRENGTH; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33645660435     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1611031     Document Type: Article

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