Carotid artery motion estimation from sequences of b-mode ultrasound images: Effect of scanner settings and image normalization

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2102-2112

  Golemati, Spyretta ^a   Stoitsis, John S ^a   Perakis, Dimitrios A ^a   Varela, Emily ^b   Alexandridi, Anastasia ^b   Davos, Constantino H ^b   Nikita, Konstantina S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Block matching; Carotid artery; Dynamic range (DR); Motion analysis; Normalization; Persistence; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

BLOCK MATCHING; CAROTID ARTERY; DYNAMIC RANGE (DR); MOTION ANALYSIS; NORMALIZATION; PERSISTENCE; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 67649591852     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2015536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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