Ia. Hein et Wd. Obrien, A REAL-TIME ULTRASOUND TIME-DOMAIN CORRELATION BLOOD FLOWMETER .2. PERFORMANCE AND EXPERIMENTAL-VERIFICATION, IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, 40(6), 1993, pp. 776-785
The theory and design of a real-time ultrasound time-domain correlatio
n (UTDC) flowmeter employing a high-speed residue number system correl
ator has been presented in Part I [4] of this work. Part II evaluates
the performance of the flowmeter under various How conditions for diff
erent correlation parameter settings. Previous work has incorporated a
weighted-averaging scheme to estimate the flow velocity over a wide n
umber of echo signal spacings. This research indicates that a linear a
veraging of 50 adjacent echo signal pairs produces equivalent accuracy
and precision at real-time processing speed as compared to previous n
on-real time systems incorporating weighted averaging.