ABSTRACT A novel approach for blood and wall signal separation in Doppler ultrasound is proposed in the wavelet time-scale domain. The Doppler signals of different clutter-to-blood ratios from a femoral artery were simulated and used in the experiments. Compared with the conventional high-pass filtering and the signal separation in the spectrogram, the new method delivers improved performance for ``wall thump'' removal with minimal loss of low-flow signal.
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