Journal article
A Transverse Oscillation Approach for Estimation of Three-Dimensional Velocity Vectors, Part I: Concept and Simulation Study
A method for 3-D velocity vector estimation us - ing transverse oscillations is presented. The method employs a 2-D transducer and decouples the velocity estimation into three orthogonal components, which are estimated simultane - ously and from the same data. The validity of the method is investigated by conducting simulations emulating a 32 × 32 matrix transducer.
The results are evaluated using two per - formance metrics related to precision and accuracy. The study includes several parameters including 49 flow directions, the SNR, steering angle, and apodization types. The 49 flow direc - tions cover the positive octant of the unit sphere. In terms of accuracy, the median bias is −2%.
The precision of v x and v y depends on the flow angle β and ranges from 5% to 31% rela - tive to the peak velocity magnitude of 1 m/s. For comparison, the range is 0.4 to 2% for v z . The parameter study also reveals, that the velocity estimation breaks down with an SNR between −6 and −3 dB. In terms of computational load, the estimation of the three velocity components requires 0.75 billion floating point operations per second (0.75 Gflops) for a realistic setup.
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Language: | English |
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Publisher: | IEEE |
Year: | 2014 |
Pages: | 1599-1607 |
ISSN: | 15258955 and 08853010 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1109/TUFFc.2013.006237 |
ORCIDs: | Jensen, Jørgen Arendt |
2D transducer 3D velocity vector estimation Array signal processing Estimation Measurement Oscillators SNR Standards Transducers Vectors apodization types computational load floating point operations flow angle flow directions flow measurement median bias orthogonal components peak velocity magnitude performance metrics positive octant steering angle transducers transverse oscillation approach unit sphere velocity measurement