Signal Losses With Real-Time Three-Dimensional Power Doppler Imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1632-1639

  Garcia, Damien ^a   Fenech, Marianne ^b   Qin, Zhao ^b   Soulez, Gilles ^b,c   Cloutier, Guy ^b,c  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Institute of Biomedical Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arterial stenosis; Computational fluid dynamics; Finite element modeling; Modeling; Power Doppler ultrasound imaging; Wall filter

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ARTERIAL STENOSIS; POWER DOPPLER ULTRASOUND IMAGING; SIGNAL LOSSES; WALL FILTERS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART CYCLE; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 34548843009     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.04.017     Document Type: Article

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