High-frame-rate 2-D vector blood flow imaging in the frequency domain

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1504-1514

  Lenge, Matteo ^a,b   Ramalli, Alessandro ^a   Boni, Enrico ^a   Liebgott, Hervé ^b   Cachard, Christian ^b   Tortoli, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; EXPERIMENTS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BACKSCATTERED ECHOES; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-CORRELATION ALGORITHM; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ALGORITHM; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; RADIO-FREQUENCY IMAGES; THE REGION OF INTEREST (ROI);

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; JUGULAR VEIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; JUGULAR VEINS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84906812183     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2014.3064     Document Type: Article

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