Flow index evaluation of 3-d volume flow images: An in vivo and in vitro study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 665-671

  Dubiel, Mariusz ^a   Hammid, Anissa ^a   Breborowicz, Andrzej ^a   Pietryga, Marek ^a   Sladkevicius, Povilas ^b   Olofsson, Per Åke ^b   Breborowicz, Grzegorz H ^a   Gudmundsson, Saemundur ^b  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

3 D ultrasound; Blood flow; Doppler; Fetus; Flow index; Power Doppler; Pregnancy; Uterine artery

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER; FETUS; FLOW INDEX; POWER DOPPLER; PREGNANCY; UTERINE ARTERY;

BLOOD; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CORRELATION METHODS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; UTERINE ARTERY;

ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERUS;

EID: 33646134103     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.01.016     Document Type: Article

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