Quality control in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery using ultrasound color flow imaging with adaptive clutter rejection filters

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1602-1605

  Løvstakken, Lasse ^a   Aadahl, Petter ^a   Samstad, Stein ^a   Torp, Hans ^a   Haaverstad, Rune ^b   Bjærum, Steinar ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c Ge Vingmed Ultrasound AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CLUTTER REJECTION FILTERS; BYPASS SURGERY; COLOR FLOW IMAGING (CFI); CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING (CABG) SURGERY;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; POLYNOMIALS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 4143079596     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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