A new method for blood velocity measurements using ultrasound FMCW signals

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1064-1076

  Kunita, Masanori ^a   Sudo, Masamitsu ^a   Inoue, Shinya ^a   Akahane, Mutsuhiro ^a  

^a Aloka Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CW DOPPLER SYSTEMS; DELAY TIME; DEMODULATION TECHNIQUES; DOPPLER INFORMATION; DOPPLER MEASUREMENT; DOPPLER SIGNALS; DOPPLER SYSTEMS; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; FM MODULATION; FMCW RADAR; FMCW SIGNAL; FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVES; HIGH SNR; PEAK POWER; PULSE WAVE; RANGE RESOLUTION; SAMPLE VOLUME; SINUSOIDAL WAVE; VEHICLE COLLISIONS;

ALARM SYSTEMS; BLOOD; CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; DOPPLER EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

RADAR WARNING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ARTIFACTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 77951931338     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1518     Document Type: Article

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