Real-time vector velocity assessment through multigate doppler and plane waves

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 314-324

  Ricci, Stefano ^a   Bassi, Luca ^a   Tortoli, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBES; REAL TIME CONTROL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DIRECTION MEASUREMENT; MULTIGATE DOPPLER; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; VELOCITY VECTOR FIELD;

ELASTIC WAVES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84893839708     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2014.6722616     Document Type: Article

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