Simultaneous quantification of flow and tissue velocities based on multi-angle plane wave imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 727-738

  Ekroll, Ingvild Kinn ^a   Swillens, Abigail ^c   Segers, Patrick ^c   Dahl, Torbjorn ^a,b   Torp, Hans ^a   Lovstakken, Lasse ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-INDEPENDENT; ARBITRARY POINTS; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DEVIATIONS; VECTOR VELOCITIES; VELOCITY COMPONENTS; VELOCITY SPECTRUM;

BLOOD VESSELS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELASTIC WAVES; TISSUE; VECTORS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

VELOCITY;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84875841928     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2621     Document Type: Article

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