Estimation of velocity vectors in synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1637-1644

  Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a   Oddershede, Niels ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Angle determination; Medical ultrasound; Synthetic aperture; Vector velocity estimation

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ANGLE DETERMINATION; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; SYNTHETIC APERTURE; VECTOR VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33845598198     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.883087     Document Type: Article

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