Contrast Biases the Autocorrelation Phase Shift Estimation in Doppler Tissue Imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 447-457

  Ressner, Marcus ^a   Jansson, Tomas ^b   Cedefamn, Jonny ^a   Ask, Per ^a   Janerot Sjoberg, Birgitta ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contrast; Microbubbles; Tissue Doppler; Ultrasound; Velocity estimation

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST; MICROBUBBLES; TISSUE DOPPLER; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CORRELATION DETECTORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHASE SHIFT; TENSORS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISUALIZATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUBUTANE;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBUBBLE; MOTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HEART; HUMANS; IRON; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; OXIDES;

EID: 60249093213     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.09.012     Document Type: Article

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