• DocumentCode
    380869
  • Title

    "Mean fractal dimension" of blood ultrasonic Doppler signals

  • Author

    Girault, Jean-Marc ; Kouame, Denis ; Patat, Frédric

  • Author_Institution
    LUSSI/GIP ULtrasons, Tours, France
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    1577
  • Abstract
    This paper deals with the characterization of blood ultrasonic Doppler signals via the computation of the "mean fractal dimension". We show and we discuss the existing links between the "mean fractal dimension" and the well-known mean frequency and the bandwidth usually used to characterize the blood Doppler signals. To finish, we calculate and we discuss all these parameters in the case of in vivo blood Doppler signals.
  • Keywords
    acoustic signal processing; biomedical ultrasonics; blood flow measurement; filtering theory; fractals; medical signal processing; random processes; bandwidth; blood ultrasonic Doppler signals; cardiovascular system; filtering; in vivo signals; low-pass filter; mean fractal dimension; mean frequency; narrow band stochastic signals; self-affinities; self-similarities; time-varying random signal; Amplitude modulation; Band pass filters; Blood; Filtering; Fractals; Frequency; Low pass filters; Narrowband; Signal analysis; White noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • ISSN
    1094-687X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7211-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1020512
  • Filename
    1020512