Directional velocity estimation using a spatio-temporal encoding technique based on frequency division for synthetic transmit aperture ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1289-1299

  Gran, Fredrik ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSMITTERS; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

BEAMFORMING LINES; SINGLE TRANSDUCER ELEMENT; SPATIAL ENCODING; SYNTHETIC TRANSMIT APERTURE ULTRASOUND;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33747260800     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1665077     Document Type: Article

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