Blood flow visualization of left atrial spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) using gradient based optical flow estimation

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4500-4503

  Tanaka, Akira ^a,b   Saijo, Yoshifumi ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; OPTICAL FLOWS;

ARIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; SPONTANEOUS ECHO CONTRAST (SEC);

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE;

EID: 57649222474     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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