Blood flow evaluation in high-frequency, 40 MHz imaging: A comparative study of four vector velocity estimation methods

Ultrasonics

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 683-690

  Marion, Adrien ^a   Aoudi, Walid ^a   Basarab, Adrian ^b   Delachartre, Philippe ^a   Vray, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Decorrelation; Deformable mesh; High frequency imaging; Spatiotemporal filtering; Speckle tracking; Ultrasound imaging; Vector velocity

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ERRORS; FLOW VELOCITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROCIRCULATION; STATISTICS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VELOCITY;

BLOOD FLOW; DE CORRELATIONS; DEFORMABLE MESH; HIGH FREQUENCY IMAGING; SPATIO TEMPORAL FILTERING; SPECKLE TRACKING; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; VECTOR VELOCITIES;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROCIRCULATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953262879     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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