Accurate Doppler angle estimation for vector flow measurements

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1425-1431

  Tortoli, Piero ^a,b   Bambi, Giacomo ^b   Ricci, Stefano ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM-FLOW ANGLE; DOPPLER FREQUENCY SHIFT; TRIANGULATION TECHNIQUES; VECTOR FLOW MEASUREMENTS;

BACKSCATTERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

DOPPLER EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33747447021     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1665099     Document Type: Article

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