Real-time adaptive clutter rejection filtering in color flow imaging using power method iterations

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1597-1608

  Løvstakken, Lasse ^a,b   Bjærum, Steinar ^c   Kristoffersen, Kjell ^c   Haaverstad, Rune ^b   Torp, Hans ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c Ge Vingmed Ultrasound AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER STATISTICS; COLOR FLOW IMAGING (CFI); ITERATIVE POWER;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE METHODS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARTIFACTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33748365667     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1678188     Document Type: Article

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