Lateral blood flow velocity estimation based on ultrasound speckle size change with scan velocity

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2695-2703

  Xu, Tiantian ^a   Bashford, Gregory R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL COMPONENTS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER; ELECTRONICALLY-CONTROLLED; ESTIMATION ERRORS; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; FLOW DATA; FLOW GRADIENTS; LEAST SQUARE; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MOVING CAMERAS; PULSE ECHOES; RANDOM MOTIONS; RED BLOOD CELL; SCAN VELOCITY; SINGLE IMAGES; SPATIAL LOCATION; SPECKLE DECORRELATION; SPECKLE PATTERNS; SPECKLE SIZE; STRETCH FACTOR; ULTRASOUND BEAMS; ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION; ULTRASOUND SPECKLE;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ESTIMATION; FLOW VELOCITY; HEMODYNAMICS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650411133     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1743     Document Type: Article

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