Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 699-707 , July 2007

Noise reduction in Doppler ultrasound signals using an adaptive decomposition algorithm

Received 2 November 2005 ,Revised 18 July 2006 ,Accepted 11 August 2006.

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PII: S1350-4533(06)00163-9

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.08.002

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 699-707 , July 2007