Ultrasound vector flow imaging—Part II: Parallel systems

JA Jensen, SI Nikolov, CH Alfred… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper gives a review of the current state-of-the-art in ultrasound parallel acquisition
systems for flow imaging using spherical and plane waves emissions. The imaging methods …

Accurate angle estimator for high-frame-rate 2-D vector flow imaging

CAV Hoyos, MB Stuart, KL Hansen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel approach for estimating 2-D flow angles using a high-frame-rate
ultrasound method. The angle estimator features high accuracy and low standard deviation …

Ultrasonic 3-D Vector Flow Method for Quantitative In Vivo Peak Velocity and Flow Rate Estimation

S Holbek, C Ewertsen, H Bouzari… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current clinical ultrasound (US) systems are limited to show blood flow movement in either 1-
D or 2-D. In this paper, a method for estimating 3-D vector velocities in a plane using the …

Ultrasound vector flow imaging—Part I: Sequential systems

JA Jensen, SI Nikolov, CH Alfred… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper gives a review of the most important methods for blood velocity vector flow
imaging (VFI) for conventional sequential data acquisition. This includes multibeam …

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

S Ricci, L Bassi, P Tortoli - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several ultrasound (US) methods have been recently proposed to produce 2-D velocity
vector fields with high temporal and spatial resolution. However, the real-time …

In-vivo synthetic aperture flow imaging in medical ultrasound

SI Nikolov, JA Jensen - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new method for acquiring flow images using synthetic aperture techniques in medical
ultrasound is presented. The new approach makes it possible to have a continuous …

Simultaneous quantification of flow and tissue velocities based on multi-angle plane wave imaging

IK Ekroll, A Swillens, P Segers, T Dahl… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quantitative angle-independent 2-D modality for flow and tissue imaging based on multi-
angle plane wave acquisition was evaluated. Simulations of realistic flow in a carotid artery …

Fast plane wave 2-D vector flow imaging using transverse oscillation and directional beamforming

J Jensen, CAV Hoyos, MB Stuart… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several techniques can estimate the 2-D velocity vector in ultrasound. Directional
beamforming (DB) estimates blood flow velocities with a higher precision and accuracy than …

Plane-wave transverse oscillation for high-frame-rate 2-D vector flow imaging

M Lenge, A Ramalli, P Tortoli… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transverse oscillation (TO) methods introduce oscillations in the pulse–echo field (PEF)
along the direction transverse to the ultrasound propagation direction. This may be exploited …

Multi-dimensional velocity estimation with ultrasound using spatial quadrature

ME Aderson - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional ultrasonic motion or flow velocity estimation is limited to the axial velocity
component. A novel technique, called" spatial quadrature," for the simultaneous estimation …