Spatiotemporal Clutter Filtering of Ultrafast Ultrasound Data Highly Increases Doppler and fUltrasound Sensitivity

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2271-2285

  Demené, Charlie ^a   Deffieux, Thomas ^a   Pernot, Mathieu ^a   Osmanski, Bruno Félix ^a   Biran, Valérie ^b   Gennisson, Jean Luc ^a   Sieu, Lim Anna ^c,d   Bergel, Antoine ^c   Franqui, Stéphanie ^e   Correas, Jean Michel ^a,f,g   Cohen, Ivan ^c   Baud, Olivier ^b   Tanter, Mickael ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 8246   (France)

^d PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^f HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^g Rene Descartes Medical University   (France)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Doppler imaging; singular value decomposition; ultrafast imaging; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

BLOOD FLOW; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DOPPLER IMAGING; MICROVASCULAR NETWORK; SPATIOTEMPORAL COHERENCE; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS; ULTRAFAST IMAGING; ULTRAFAST ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FILTRATION; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; ULTRAFAST DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; KIDNEY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84943636517     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2015.2428634     Document Type: Article

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