Estimation methods for flow imaging with high frequency ultrasound

Ultrasonics

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Aoudi, W ^a   Liebgott, H ^a   Needles, A ^b   Yang, V ^b   Foster, F S ^b   Vray, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Decorrelation; High frequency imaging; Microcirculation; Speckle Tracking

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BLOOD; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PULSATILE FLOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONICS;

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD MIMICKING FLUIDS; DECORRELATION; HIGH FREQUENCY IMAGING; SPECKLE FLOW IMAGING (SFI); SPECKLE TRACKING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33845685294     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2006.06.025     Document Type: Article

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