Reducing color flow artifacts caused by parallel beamforming

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 830-838

  Hergum, Torbjørn ^a,b   Bjåstad, Tore Grüner ^a,b   Løvstakken, Lasse ^a   Kristoffersen, Kjell ^c   Torp, Hans ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c Ge Vingmed Ultrasound AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; B-MODE IMAGING; COLOR FLOW; COLOR FLOW IMAGES; COLOR FLOW IMAGING; DOPPLER VELOCITY; FRAME RATE; HIGH FRAME RATE; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; PARALLEL BEAMFORMING; PARALLEL BEAMS; RECEIVE BEAMFORMING; SCAN-PLANES; TIME-DIFFERENCES;

BEAMFORMING; COLOR; CORRELATION DETECTORS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARALLEL FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; JUGULAR VEIN; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 77951078478     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1488     Document Type: Article

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