Title :
Assessing the accuracy of color Doppler ultrasound
Author :
Stewart, Sandy F C
Author_Institution :
Center for Devices & Radiol. Health, US Food & Drug Adm., Rockville, MD, USA
Abstract :
A torus phantom was used to assess the accuracy of a commercial color Doppler ultrasound (CDU) system. The accuracy was found to be significantly dependent on the transducer used as well as on the instrument settings and the magnitude of velocity measured
Keywords :
Doppler measurement; biomedical transducers; biomedical ultrasonics; blood flow measurement; image colour analysis; medical image processing; accuracy assessment; color Doppler ultrasound; color velocity maps; instrument settings; linear array transducer; torus phantom; transducer dependence; vascular use; Color; Frequency; Heart valves; Imaging phantoms; Instruments; Phased arrays; Testing; Tin; Transducers; Ultrasonic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5674-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804225
