Directional synthetic aperture flow imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1107-1118

  Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a   Nikolov, Svetoslav Ivanov ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; LAMINAR FLOW; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF); PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY; STATIONARY ECHO CANCELING; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; JUGULAR VEIN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUGULAR VEINS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 4644321094     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1334843     Document Type: Article

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