Displacement vector measurement using instantaneous ultrasound signal phase - Multidimensional autocorrelation and doppler methods

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-43

  Sumi, Chikayoshi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DOPPLER EFFECT; GEOMETRY; SONAR;

GEOMETRICAL EVALUATIONS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DOPPLER METHOD (MDM); TISSUE STRAIN;

ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 40549127039     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.614     Document Type: Article

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