Doppler Artifacts and Pitfalls

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 805-835

  Rubens, Deborah J ^a   Bhatt, Shweta ^a   Nedelka, Shannon ^a   Cullinan, Jeanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITAL IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ARTIFACTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMANS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 37849185423     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2006.10.014     Document Type: Review

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