Finding the peak velocity in a flow from its doppler spectrum

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2079-2088

  Vilkomerson, David ^a   Ricci, Stefano ^b   Tortoli, Piero ^b  

^a DVX   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; DOPPLER FREQUENCY; DOPPLER POWER SPECTRUM; DOPPLER SPECTRA; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; MEAN BIAS ERRORS; METHOD OF MODELING; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

DOPPLER EFFECT; HEURISTIC METHODS; POWER SPECTRUM; VELOCITY;

VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84884779027     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2798     Document Type: Article

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