Spectral velocity estimation in ultrasound using sparse data sets

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 211-220

  Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION; FLOW DATA; RANDOM SEQUENCES; SPECTRAL VELOCITY; SPECTROGRAM; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD VESSEL; CALCULATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTRUM; THEORY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VELOCITY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 33745747697     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2208428     Document Type: Article

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