An Automatic Angle Tracking Procedure for Feasible Vector Doppler Blood Velocity Measurements

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 488-496

  Tortoli, Piero ^a   Dallai, Alessandro ^a   Boni, Enrico ^a   Francalanci, Lorenzo ^a   Ricci, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angle dependence; Blood velocity measurement; Carotid artery; Dual beam method; Reproducibility; Ultrasound; Vector Doppler

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; CAROTID ARTERY; DUAL-BEAM; REPRODUCIBILITIES; VECTOR DOPPLER;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; ULTRASONICS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

VELOCITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; B SCAN; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; AUTOMATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749140315     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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