Feasibility exploration of blood flow estimation by contrast-assisted Nakagami imaging

Ultrasonic Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 133-150

  Tsui, Po Hsiang ^a   Yeh, Chih Kuang ^b   Chang, Chien Cheng ^a,c  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Contrast agent; Microbubble; Nakagami parameter

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RATE CONSTANTS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; VELOCITY;

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW ESTIMATION; CONTRAST AGENT; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICROBUBBLE CONTRAST AGENTS; MONOEXPONENTIAL MODELS; NAKAGAMI PARAMETER; TIME-INTENSITY CURVES;

FLOW VELOCITY;

EID: 58149234914     PISSN: 01617346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016173460803000301     Document Type: Article

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