Single-ensemble-based eigen-processing methods for color flow imaging-Part II. the matrix pencil estimator

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 573-587

  Yu, Alfred C H ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATOR; BLOOD VELOCITIES; CENTERLINE; COLOR FLOW IMAGING; COLOR FLOWS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; DOMINANT COMPLEXES; DOPPLER FREQUENCIES; EIGEN STRUCTURES; FLOW ESTIMATIONS; FLOW PHANTOMS; FLOW PROFILES; FREQUENCY ESTIMATES; GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; MATRIX PENCILS; MATRIX RANKS; MATRIXES; METHOD MODELS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; PROCESSING METHODS; PULSE REPETITION PERIODS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SPECTRAL ESTIMATORS; TIME SIGNALS; TISSUE MOTIONS; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS; TRANSMIT FREQUENCIES; VELOCITY MAPS;

BLOOD; COLOR; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 44849128368     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.683     Document Type: Article

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