title: [A new MTI scheme in ultrasonic color flow mapping systems].
abstract: In color flow imaging systems, the ultrasound Doppler signal scattered from blood is heavily corrupted by the strong clutter signal reflected from the slow-moving muscular tissue. Moving target indicator (MTI) is a key technique of rejecting the clutter signal and detecting blood flow. To improve the performance of detecting blood flow, a new MTI scheme is proposed in this paper. It consists of a pre-filter, a clutter weak-rejector and a 2-order AR estimator. After the processing of pre-filtering and clutter weak-rejection, the strong clutter signal is effectively eliminated and its strength is comparable with blood flow. Under such condition, the optimal performance can be attained by the 2-order AR estimator. It is illustrated in the simulation that, compared with the data from traditional methods, the blood flow parameters are estimated with smaller deviation and the lower speed flow is detected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China. fengnz@yeah.net
authors.forename: Naizhang
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Jianqiu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*