TY - JOUR
T1 - In-vivo validation of fast spectral velocity estimation techniques
AU - Hansen, Kristoffer Lindskov
AU - Gran, Fredrik
AU - Pedersen, M M
AU - Holfort, I K
AU - Jensen, J A
AU - Nielsen, Michael Bachmann
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - Spectrograms in medical ultrasound are usually estimated with Welch's method (WM). WM is dependent on an observation window (OW) of up to 256 emissions per estimate to achieve sufficient spectral resolution and contrast. Two adaptive filterbank methods have been suggested to reduce the OW: Blood spectral Power Capon (BPC) and the Blood Amplitude and Phase EStimation method (BAPES). Ten volunteers were scanned over the carotid artery. From each data set, 28 spectrograms were produced by combining four approaches (WM with a Hanning window (W.HAN), WM with a boxcar window (W.BOX), BPC and BAPES) and seven OWs (128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2). The full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) and the ratio between main and side-lobe levels were calculated at end-diastole for each spectrogram. Furthermore, all 280 spectrograms were randomized and presented to nine radiologists for visual evaluation: useful/not useful. BAPES and BPC compared to WM had better resolution (lower FWHM) for all OW0.05) at OW 128 and 64, while W.BOX scored less (p
AB - Spectrograms in medical ultrasound are usually estimated with Welch's method (WM). WM is dependent on an observation window (OW) of up to 256 emissions per estimate to achieve sufficient spectral resolution and contrast. Two adaptive filterbank methods have been suggested to reduce the OW: Blood spectral Power Capon (BPC) and the Blood Amplitude and Phase EStimation method (BAPES). Ten volunteers were scanned over the carotid artery. From each data set, 28 spectrograms were produced by combining four approaches (WM with a Hanning window (W.HAN), WM with a boxcar window (W.BOX), BPC and BAPES) and seven OWs (128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2). The full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) and the ratio between main and side-lobe levels were calculated at end-diastole for each spectrogram. Furthermore, all 280 spectrograms were randomized and presented to nine radiologists for visual evaluation: useful/not useful. BAPES and BPC compared to WM had better resolution (lower FWHM) for all OW0.05) at OW 128 and 64, while W.BOX scored less (p
U2 - 10.1016/j.ultras.2009.07.007
DO - 10.1016/j.ultras.2009.07.007
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 19666182
SN - 0041-624X
VL - 50
SP - 52
EP - 59
JO - Ultrasonics
JF - Ultrasonics
IS - 1
ER -