Assessment of spectral doppler in preclinical ultrasound using a small-size rotating phantom

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1491-1499

  Yang, Xin ^a   Sun, Chao ^a   Anderson, Tom ^a   Moran, Carmel M ^a   Hadoke, Patrick W F ^a   Gray, Gillian A ^a   Hoskins, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood velocity; Doppler phantom; Doppler ultrasound; High frequency ultrasound; Preclinical ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; ERRORS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BLOOD VELOCITY; BLOOD VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; DOPPLER; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; SPECTRAL BROADENING; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS; ULTRASOUND SCANNERS;

ULTRASONICS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; IMAGING PHANTOM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

EID: 84880039435     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.03.013     Document Type: Article

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