Design and implementation of a smartphone-based portable ultrasound pulsed-wave doppler device for blood flow measurement

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 182-188

  Huang, Chih Chung ^a   Lee, Po Yang ^a   Chen, Pay Yu ^a   Liu, Ting Yu ^a  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL BLOOD; BASE BANDS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; COUETTE FLOWS; DOPPLER; DOPPLER FLOWMETERS; DOPPLER SHIFT SIGNALS; DOPPLER SIGNAL PROCESSING; DOPPLER SIGNALS; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; DYNAMIC MONITORING; IN-VIVO; MEDICAL ULTRASOUND; PARALLEL DISKS; PORTABLE DEVICE; PORTABLE SYSTEM; PORTABLE ULTRASOUND; PULSED-WAVE DOPPLER; REAL TIME; SPECTROGRAMS; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS;

DIAGNOSIS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SCANNING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ULTRASONICS;

ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SWINE; TRANSDUCER; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELLULAR PHONE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 84856627802     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2171     Document Type: Article

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