Two-dimensional blood velocity estimation with ultrasound: Speckle tracking versus crossed-beam vector doppler based on flow simulations in a carotid bifurcation model

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 327-339

  Swillens, Abigail ^a   Segers, Patrick ^a   Torp, Hans ^b   Løvstakken, Lasse ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIASING; AXIAL COMPONENTS; AXIAL VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VELOCITY ESTIMATION; CARDIAC CYCLES; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID BIFURCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMPLEX FLOW; DOPPLER TECHNIQUES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLOW IMAGING; GROUND TRUTH; IN-VITRO; LATERAL VELOCITIES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ESTIMATOR; NOISE LEVELS; NON-INVASIVE; NYQUIST; ON FLOW; PARAMETER STUDIES; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SPECKLE TRACKING; STATIONARY FLOW; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRASONIC SIMULATION; VECTOR DOPPLER;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BLOOD; DIAGNOSIS; ESTIMATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEMODYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SETTLING TANKS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 77649103859     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1413     Document Type: Article

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