An experimental evaluation of the effect of the beam-vessel angle on the received acoustic signal from blood

Author

Ferrara, K. Whittaker ; Kalisz, A. ; Zagar, B. ; Algazi, V.R.

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

Oct. 31 1994-Nov. 3 1994

Firstpage

1691

Abstract

In order to explore the feasibility of algorithms to determine the three dimensional (3D) velocity magnitude from the received ultrasonic blood echo from a single line of sight, the signal from small sample volumes is studied as a function of beam-vessel angle. As opposed to previous treatments of the effect of the beam-vessel angle on the received acoustic signal, a wideband signal is transmitted and the returned signal in each sample volume is analyzed. It is shown that the two major effects limiting the correlated signal interval are the spread of axial velocities within the sample volume and the transit time across the lateral beam width. Particularly for small beam-vessel angles, the spread of velocities limits the correlated signal interval

Keywords

acoustic correlation; bioacoustics; biomedical ultrasonics; blood flow measurement; echo; algorithms; axial velocities; beam-vessel angle; blood; lateral beam width; received acoustic signal; received ultrasonic blood echo; returned signal; single line of sight; small sample volumes; three dimensional velocity magnitude; transit time; wideband signal; Acoustic correlators; Biomedical acoustic imaging; Biomedical acoustics; Blood flow measurement; Blood vessels; Echo interference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE

Conference_Location

Cannes, France

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2012-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.1994.401916

Filename

401916