Full motion and flow field recovery from echo Doppler data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-45

  Arigovindan, Muthuvel ^a   Sühling, Michael ^a   Jansen, Christian ^b   Hunziker, Patrick ^b   Unser, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Color Doppler imaging; Color flow imaging; Echocardiography; Nonuniform sampling; Projected sampling; Pulsed wave Doppler; Regularized reconstruction; Shift invariant spaces; Tissue Doppler imaging; Ultrasound Doppler; Variational reconstruction

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CARDIOLOGY; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COLOR DOPPLER IMAGING; NONUNIFORM SAMPLING; PROJECTED SAMPLING; REGULARIZED RECONSTRUCTION; ULTRASOUND DOPPLER; VARIATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846202865     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.884201     Document Type: Article

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