Coded ultrasound for blood flow estimation using subband processing

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2211-2220

  Gran, Fredrik ^a   Udesen, Jesper ^a   Nielsen, Michael Bachmann ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD; CODES (SYMBOLS); HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

BAND EXCITATIONS; BAND FILTERS; BARKER CODES; BIT CODES; BLOOD FLOW ESTIMATIONS; BROADBAND SIGNALS; CODED EXCITATIONS; CODED SIGNALS; CODED ULTRASOUNDS; CODING SCHEMES; CONVENTIONAL APPROACHES; EXCITATION PULSES; EXCITATION SIGNALS; FLOW ANGLES; GOLAY CODES; IMAGING; LINEAR ARRAYS; MEDICAL ULTRASOUNDS; PARABOLIC FLOWS; PEAK VELOCITIES; REFERENCE METHODS; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SUBBAND PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS; VELOCITY ESTIMATIONS;

VELOCITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DATA COMPRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 54049158582     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.920     Document Type: Article

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