VISUALIZATION OF BLOOD-FLOW WITH 2-DIMENSIONAL MOVING TARGET INDICATION

Based on high-frame-rate digital subtraction echography (HFDSE), we de veloped a new imaging method to visualize blood flow, i.e., two-dimens ional moving target indication (2D-MTI). This method reveals blood flo w on a plane by extracting a moving target in the blood flow from ultr asonic B-mode images and tracking it on successive images. Experiments were performed using a model flow path. The results show that particl es were extracted from ultrasonic B-mode images, and flow was visualiz ed.