Estimation of velocity vector angles using the directional cross-correlation method

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2036-2049

  Kortbek, Jacob ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BEAMFORMING; CROSS CORRELATION METHOD; VELOCITY DIRECTION; VELOCITY VECTORS;

VECTORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846222751     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.144     Document Type: Article

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