A simulation of transit time effects in Doppler ultrasound signals

A signal model is proposed which can be used to study frequency extraction techniques for Doppler ultrasound. The signal is based on the physics of the Doppler process and depends on a sliding window used to average a set of independent Gaussian random numbers. This window is related to the shape of the sample volume for the Doppler pulse and depends on the Doppler angle. Simulation results compare favorably with results from flow experiments in terms of the variance of the estimated Doppler shift, the shape of the power spectra and the behavior of the signals with respect to Burg autoregressive power spectra. A potential use of the signal in the study of spectral analysis techniques is presented.