An Arterial Wall Motion Test Phantom for the Evaluation of Wall Motion Software

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1504-1511

  Hammer, Steven J ^a   Dineley, Judith ^a   Easson, William J ^a   Hoskins, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Arterial dilation; Arterial wall motion; Motion estimation; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISEASES; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TISSUE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTERIAL DILATION; ARTERIAL WALL MOTION; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

ACCURACY; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM;

ARTERIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34548124551     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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