Multi-frequency encoding for fast color flow or quadroplex imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 778-786

  Oddershede, Niels ^a,b   Gran, Fredrik ^a,b   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DATA ACQUISITION; FREQUENCY BANDS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FRAME RATE; SPECTROGRAMS; ULTRASONIC COLOR FLOW MAPS;

ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CAROTID ARTERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 43349096444     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.712     Document Type: Article

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