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Blood Flow Imaging with Ultrafast Doppler
Published on: October 14, 2020
The effect of frequency dependent scattering and attenuation on the estimation of blood velocity using ultrasound
K W Ferrara1, V R Algazi, J Liu
1Center for Image Process. and Integrated Comput., California Univ., Davis, CA.
Abstract:
A comprehensive theoretical performance comparison of the wideband maximum-likelihood (WMLE) and cross-correlation strategies, previously proposed and evaluated for the estimation of blood velocity using ultrasound is presented. It is based on evaluation of the bias, local and global accuracy, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance. The results show that the intervening medium does not bias either wideband estimation, due to the effect of tracking the scattering target. The presence of intervening tissue actually improves the global accuracy of both wideband estimators, without a significant change in the local accuracy of either wideband estimator. After the transmission of P pulses, a comparison of the performance of the two strategies shows that the cross-correlation estimator requires P(2 ) correlations to achieve performance similar to that of the WMLE with P operations. In addition, the WMLE can increase the effective SNR in comparison with cross correlation.
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