OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	108
Advances in Ulstrasound Technology	88
Front Cover	82
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	80
Retraction Notice: New Mega-Farad Ultracapacitors	76
Real-Time Full-Volume Row-Column Imaging	65
Temperature-stable high-power properties of (K,Na)NbO₃-based piezoelectric ceramics	63
Table of contents	62
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LVNet: Lightweight Model for Left Ventricle Segmentation for Short Axis Views in Echocardiographic Imaging	48
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	47
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	45
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The Ever-Growing Field of High-Frequency Biomedical Ultrasound	44
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	44
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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	41
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[Front cover]	39
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Spotlight Issue on Frontiers in Photoacoustic Imaging	37
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	36
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	36

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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	34
Front Cover	34
Table of Contents	33
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control	33
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Ultrasonic Transducer From Piezoelectric Polymer Multilayer Through Electrophoretic Deposition for Photoacoustic Imaging	32
Investigation of a Novel Acoustic Levitation Technique Using the Transition Period Between Acoustic Pulse Trains and Electrical Driving Signals	31
Spatially Variant Ultrasound Attenuation Mapping Using a Regularized Linear Least-Squares Approach	31
Microwave Acoustic Attenuation in CTGS Single Crystals	30
A Modular, Kerf-Minimizing Approach for Therapeutic Ultrasound Phased Array Construction	30
Wireless Power Transmission for Implantable Medical Devices Using Focused Ultrasound and a Miniaturized 1-3 Piezoelectric Composite Receiving Transducer	30
Modeling the Physics of Bubble Nucleation in Histotripsy	29
Design and Implementation of a Modular and Scalable Research Platform for Ultrasound Computed Tomography	29
Multi-Task/Single-Task Joint Learning of Ultrasound BI-RADS Features	29
Reducing the Guidewire Friction for Endovascular Interventional Surgery by Radial Micro-Vibration	28
3-D High Frequency Ultrasound Imaging by Piezo-Driving a Single-Element Transducer	28
Improved Ultrasound Localization Microscopy Based on Microbubble Uncoupling via Transmit Excitation	27
A Novel Approach for the Detection of Every Significant Collapsing Bubble in Passive Cavitation Imaging	27
Robust Scatterer Number Density Segmentation of Ultrasound Images	27
Double-Stage DMAS With Fresnel Zone Filtering in Guided Waves Damage Imaging	27
High-Frequency Ultrasound Activation of Perfluorocarbon Nanodroplets for Treatment of Glaucoma	27
A Nonlinear Pulse Shaping Method Using Resonant Piezoelectric MEMS Devices	27
A Prototype System With Custom-Designed RX ICs for Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging	27
Improved Ultrafast Power Doppler Imaging by Using Spatiotemporal Non-Local Means Filtering	26
Measurement System for Piezoelectric Resonance Impedance Spectroscopy Under Combined AC and High-Voltage DC Loading	26
An Automated Region-Selection Method for Adaptive ALARA Ultrasound Imaging	26
Index-Rotated Fast Ultrasound Imaging of Cortical Bone Based on Predicted Velocity Model	26
High-Attenuation Backing Layer for Miniaturized Ultrasound Imaging Transducer	26
Spatiotemporal Deconvolution of Hydrophone Response for Linear and Nonlinear Beams—Part II: Experimental Validation	26
Dissemination of the Acoustic Pascal: The Role and Experiences of a National Metrology Institute	26
Ultrasound Frequency Mixing for Enhanced Contrast Harmonic Imaging of Microbubbles	25
Adaptive Models for Multi-Covariate Imaging of Sub-Resolution Targets (MIST)	25
Adaptation of Range-Doppler Algorithm for Efficient Beamforming of Monostatic and Multistatic Ultrasound Signals	25
Investigating Substrate Loss in MEMS Acoustic Resonators and On-Chip Inductors	25
Unfocused Field Analysis of a Density-Tapered Spiral Array for High-Volume-Rate 3-D Ultrasound Imaging	25
An Analysis of the Thermal Behavior and Effects of Circular Quartz Crystal Resonators for Microbalance Applications	25
Fully Automatic Dual-Probe Lung Ultrasound Scanning Robot for Screening Triage	25
A Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation Method via Temporal-Spatial Interference Magneto-Acoustic Effect: Simulation and Experimental Validation	24
Quantifying Valve Regurgitation Using 3-D Doppler Ultrasound Images and Deep Learning	24
Ultrasound Imaging With a Flexible Probe Based on Element Array Geometry Estimation Using Deep Neural Network	24
A High-Performance 3-D Imaging Technique Using Simultaneous Azimuth and Elevation Compounding	24
PAX (Passive–Active Crossing) Method for Sub-Millimeter Coregistration of Passive Acoustic Mapping and B-Mode Images	24
Comparison of Spatial Encodings for Ultrasound Imaging	24
Multidimensional Clutter Filtering of Aperture Domain Data for Improved Blood Flow Sensitivity	23
Nonlinear Finite Element Calculations of Layered SAW Resonators	23
Concave Array Ultrasonic Transducer From Multilayer Piezoelectric Ceramic for Photoacoustic Imaging	23
Deep Null Space Learning Improves Dataset Recovery for High Frame Rate Synthetic Transmit Aperture Imaging	23

Design of a 1-MHz Therapeutic Ultrasound Array for Small Volume Blood-Brain Barrier Opening at Cortical Targets in Macaques	23
Feasibility of Model-Assisted Probability of Detection Principles for Structural Health Monitoring Systems Based on Guided Waves for Fiber-Reinforced Composites	22
Passive Cavitation Imaging Artifact Reduction Using Data-Adaptive Spatial Filtering	22
Hybrid Treatment via MHz Acoustic Waves and Plasma to Enhance Seed Germination in Mung Bean	22
An Averaging Method for Phase Noise Studies of Quartz Phononic Frequency Combs	22
Direct-Write Piezoelectric Transducers on Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Structures for Exciting and Receiving Guided Ultrasonic Waves	22
Determining the Responsivity of Air-Coupled Piezoelectric Transducers Using a Comparative Method: Theory and Experiments	22
State-Space Model of an Electro-Mechanical-Acoustic Contactless Energy Transfer System Based on Multiphysics Networks	22
Genetic Algorithm-Wavelet Transform Feature Extraction for Data-Driven Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy	21
Personalized Cancer Therapeutics Using Photoacoustic Imaging-Guided Sonodynamic Therapy	21
Development of Tunable Ferroelectric Ceramic Capacitors	21
Head-to-Head Comparison of Acoustic Properties of Lead-Free and PZT-Based HIFU Transducers Operating at 12 MHz	21
Spurious Modes in Laterally Excited Bulk Acoustic Resonators (XBARs): Analysis and Suppression	21
Comparative Characterization of Nonlinear Ultrasound Fields Generated by Sonalleve V1 and V2 MR-HIFU Systems	21
Evaluation of Performance Tradeoffs When Using Mechanically Swept 1-D Linear Arrays for 3-D DCE-US	21
A Bayesian Filtering Approach to Multimode Separation and Retrieval of Ultrasonic Guided Waves	21
Automatic Probe Localization in Multiaperture Ultrasound by Radon Domain Signal Matching	20
Ultrasound-Based Registration for the Computer-Assisted Navigated Percutaneous Scaphoid Fixation	20
Fast Thresholding of SVD Clutter Filter Using the Spatial Similarity Matrix and a Sum-Table Algorithm	20
Contrast-Enhanced Imaging of Histotripsy Bubble Clouds Using Chirp-Coded Excitation and Volterra Filtering	20
Contrast-Free Super-Resolution Power Doppler (CS-PD) Based on Deep Neural Networks	20
Efficient 3-D Finite Element Modeling of Periodic XBAR Resonators	20
Enhanced Needle Visualization With Reflection Tuned Apodization Based on the Radon Transform for Ultrasound Imaging	19
Nonlinear Acoustic Holography With Adaptive Sampling	19
Near Spurious-Free Thickness Shear Mode Lithium Niobate Resonator for Piezoelectric Power Conversion	19
A Forward Model Incorporating Elevation-Focused Transducer Properties for 3-D Full-Waveform Inversion in Ultrasound Computed Tomography	19
An Automatic 3-D Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Combined Imaging System for Human Inflammatory Arthritis	19
Multi-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging Fusion Method Based on Wavelet Transform for Guided Screw Insertion	18
Sticky Hard-Sphere Model for Characterizing Tumor Microstructure via Quantitative Ultrasound	18
Experimental Study of Transverse Mode Suppression on Wideband Hetero Acoustic Layer Surface Acoustic Wave Resonator	18
Advancing the Frontiers in Photoacoustic Imaging	18
Development of a Wearable Ultrasonic Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulator	18
Automatic Segmentation of 2-D Echocardiography Ultrasound Images by Means of Generative Adversarial Network	18
Acceleration-Based Kalman Tracking for Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging In Vivo	18
Treatment Planning and Aberration Correction Algorithm for HIFU Ablation of Renal Tumors	18
Machine-to-Machine Transfer Function in Deep Learning-Based Quantitative Ultrasound	18
Feasibility of Hologram-Assisted Bilateral Blood–Brain Barrier Opening in Non-Human Primates	17
Self-Test of Air-Coupled Probe for Sensitivity Map Production Using Parabolic Reflector	17
A Novel 2x2D Radial Basis Function-Based Interpolation for Short Acquisition Time and Relaxed Frame Rate Ultrasound Localization Microscopy	17
Flexible PZT-Based Row-Column Addressed 2-D PMUT Array	17
Single-Beam Acoustic Tweezers for Cell Biology: Molecular to In Vivo Level	17
Lung Ultrasound Spectroscopy Applied to the Differential Diagnosis of Pulmonary Diseases: An In Vivo Multicenter Clinical Study	17
Design and Evaluation of a Weighted Periodic Sparse Array for Low-Complexity 1-D Phased Array Ultrasound Imaging Systems	17
Underestimation of Flow Velocity in 2-D Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging	17
High-Frequency, 2-mm-Diameter Forward-Viewing 2-D Array for 3-D Intracoronary Blood Flow Imaging	17
A Robust Backscatter Modulation Scheme for Uninterrupted Ultrasonic Powering and Back-Communication of Deep Implants	17
Ultrasound Localization Microscopy Precision of Clinical 3-D Ultrasound Systems	17
Lateral Spurious Mode Suppression in Lithium Niobate A1 Resonators	16
Real-Time Visualization of a Focused Ultrasound Beam Using Ultrasonic Backscatter	16
Ultrasound Localization Microscopy for Cancer Imaging	16
Ultrasonic Transducer With Increased Exposure Power and Frequency up to 100 kHz	16
Image Quality Enhancement Using a Deep Neural Network for Plane Wave Medical Ultrasound Imaging	16
Minimum Variance Combined With Modified Delay Multiply-and-Sum Beamforming for Plane-Wave Compounding	16
Resolution and Speckle Reduction in Cardiac Imaging	16
A Unified Framework Combining Doppler-Based Motion Compensation, Harmonic Imaging, and Angular Coherence for High-Quality B-Mode in Ultrafast Echocardiography	16
Joint Blind Deconvolution and Robust Principal Component Analysis for Blood Flow Estimation in Medical Ultrasound Imaging	16
Effect of Curie Temperature on Ferroelectric Tunnel FET and Its RF/Analog Performance	16
Elimination of Nontargeted Photoacoustic Signals for Combined Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging	16
Frequency Dependence of Coercive Fields of [001]- and [011]-Poled Rhombohedral Pb(In_1/2Nb_1/2)O₃-Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-PbTiO₃ Single Crystals	16
Phase-Aberration Correction for HIFU Therapy Using a Multielement Array and Backscattering of Nonlinear Pulses	16
Passive Cavitation Mapping by Cavitation Source Localization From Aperture-Domain Signals—Part I: Theory and Validation Through Simulations	15
Virtual Source Synthetic Aperture for Accurate Lateral Displacement Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography	15
Radiation Characteristics of Cranial Leaky Lamb Waves	15
A Deep Learning Approach for Segmentation, Classification, and Visualization of 3-D High-Frequency Ultrasound Images of Mouse Embryos	15
Linear Signal Cancellation of Nonlinear Pulsing Schemes in a Verasonics Research Scanner	15
Scattering Matrix Approach to Design of One-Port Surface Acoustic Wave Resonator Sensors Utilizing Reflectors as Sensing Element	15
Optical Multiplexing of Metrological Time and Frequency Signals in a Single 100-GHz-Grid Optical Channel	15
L- and X-Band Dual-Frequency Synthesizer Utilizing Lithium Niobate RF-MEMS and Open-Loop Frequency Dividers	15
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	15
Optimal Design of TSM Langasite Resonator for High-Temperature Applications: A Review	15
A New Methodology for the Assessment of Very Low Concentrations of Cells in Serous Body Fluids Based on the Count of Ultrasound Echoes Backscattered From Cells	15
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A Robust and Fast Method for 2-D Shear Wave Speed Calculation	15
Noninvasive Acoustic Measurements in Cylindrical Shell Containers	15
MCAL: An Anatomical Knowledge Learning Model for Myocardial Segmentation in 2-D Echocardiography	14
Neuroprotective Effect of Ultrasound Neuromodulation on Kainic Acid- Induced Epilepsy in Mice	14
Adhesive Porosity Analysis of Composite Adhesive Joints Using Ultrasonic Guided Waves	14
Unsupervised Test-Time Adaptation for Hepatic Steatosis Grading Using Ultrasound B-Mode Images	14
High-Quality Ultrafast Power Doppler Imaging Based on Spatial Angular Coherence Factor	14
A Low-Voltage Cylindrical Traveling Wave Ultrasonic Motor Incorporating Multilayered Piezoelectric Ceramics	14

Multitarget Transcranial Ultrasound Therapy in Small Animals Based on Phase-Only Acoustic Holographic Lens	14
Front Cover	14
Nonlinear Equivalent Circuit of High-Power Sandwich Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducer	14
Hadamard-Encoded Synthetic Transmit Aperture Imaging for Improved Lateral Motion Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography	14
Extending the Linearity of AlScN Contour-Mode Resonators Through Acoustic Metamaterials-Based Reflectors	14
Modeling the Effect of Anisotropy in Ultrasonic-Guided Wave Tomography	14
Feature Fusion for Diagnosis of Atypical Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Contrast- Enhanced Ultrasound	14
Array Transducer Design: A Vibrant Research Theme in Medical Ultrasonics	14
Ultrasonic Rough Crack Characterization Using Time-of-Flight Diffraction With Self-Attention Neural Network	14
Comparison Between Clinically Available Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (LIPUS) and a Novel Bimodal Acoustic Signal System for Accelerating Fracture Healing	14
Hydrophone Measurements for Biomedical Ultrasound Applications: A Review	14
ULM-MbCNRT: In Vivo Ultrafast Ultrasound Localization Microscopy by Combining Multibranch CNN and Recursive Transformer	14
Spatial Coherence Approaches to Distinguish Suspicious Mass Contents in Fundamental and Harmonic Breast Ultrasound Images	14
Improving Transcranial Acoustic Targeting: The Limits of CT-Based Velocity Estimates and the Role of MR	14
Evaluation of Blood Induced Influence for High-Definition Intravascular Ultrasound (HD-IVUS)	14
Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer for Arterial Wall Dynamics Monitoring	14
Real-Time Coded Excitation Imaging Using a CMUT-Based Side Looking Array for Intravascular Ultrasound	13
Broadband High-Frequency Ultrasonic Transducer Based Functional Photoacoustic Mesoscopy for Psoriasis Progression	13
Variable Curvature Flexible Transducer for Abdominal Expandable Imaging	13
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Dual-Frequency CMUT Arrays for Multiband Ultrasound Imaging Applications	13
Fully Automated 3-D Ultrasound Segmentation of the Placenta, Amniotic Fluid, and Fetus for Early Pregnancy Assessment	13
Improvement of 3-D Ultrasound Spine Imaging Technique Using Fast Reconstruction Algorithm	13
Transcranial MR-Guided Histotripsy System	13
Optical-Comb-Based Frequency Stability Transfer Across the Spectrum With a Multichannel FPGA	13
User Parameter-Free Minimum Variance Beamformer in Medical Ultrasound Imaging	13
Time-Sharing Acoustic Tweezers for Parallel Manipulation of Multiple Particles	13
Uncertainty Quantification for Deep Learning in Ultrasonic Crack Characterization	13
Ultrasound-Powered Wireless Underwater Acoustic Identification Tags for Backscatter Communication	13
Five Low-Noise Stable Oscillators Referenced to the Same Multimode AlN/Si MEMS Resonator	13
Reverberation Clutter Suppression Using 2-D Spatial Coherence Analysis	13
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	13
Retrospective Transmit Beamforming and Coherent Plane-Wave Compounding for Microvascular Doppler Imaging: A Comparison Study	13
Emerging Wearable Ultrasound Technology	13
Recent advances in piezoelectric materials for electromechanical transducer applications	12
Spotlight Issue on Intervention Ultrasound	12
TinyProbe: A Wearable 32-Channel Multimodal Wireless Ultrasound Probe	12
Super-Resolution Ultrasound: From Data Acquisition and Motion Correction to Localization, Tracking, and Evaluation	12
Front Cover	12
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	12
Recent advances in piezoelectric materials for electromechanical transducer applications	12
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Call for papers: Recent advances in piezoelectric materials for electromechanical transducer applications	12
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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control	12
A Programmable Platform for Accelerating the Development of Smart Ultrasound Transducer Probe	12
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	12
Universal Synthetic Aperture Sequence for Anatomic, Functional, and Super Resolution Imaging	12
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	12
On the Investigation of Autocorrelation-Based Vector Doppler Method With Plane Wave Imaging	12
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Recent advances in piezoelectric materials for electromechanical transducer applications	12
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Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging Using the Erythrocytes—Part I: Density Images	12
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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control	12
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Spotlight Issue on Lead-Free Piezoelectric Transducers	12
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Deep Learning-Based Microbubble Localization for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy	11
Review of Sintering Aids in Lead-Free (K, Na)NbO₃-Based Ceramics	11
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control	11
3-D Acoustic Tweezers Using a 2-D Matrix Array With Time-Multiplexed Traps	11
Spherical–Omnidirectional Piezoelectric Composite Transducer for High- Frequency Underwater Acoustics	11
Spatial Ambiguity Correction in Coherence-Based Average Sound Speed Estimation	11
Quantitative Viscoelastic Response (QVisR): Direct Estimation of Viscoelasticity With Neural Networks	11
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Optimization Design of Ultrasonic Transducer With Multimatching Layer	11
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	11
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	11
VoxelMorph-Based Deep Learning Motion Correction for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy of Spinal Cord	11
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Study of the Impact of Probe Steering Capability on the Performance of Off-Axis Measurements of Backscattered Signals	11
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	11
Branched Convolutional Neural Networks for Receiver Channel Recovery in High-Frame-Rate Sparse-Array Ultrasound Imaging	11
A Filter-Free Third Overtone Quartz Oscillator Based on Micromachining Technology	11
Dual-Frequency Intravascular Sonothrombolysis: An In Vitro Study	11
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	11
4-D Vector Doppler Imaging Using Row-Column Addressed Array	11
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information	11
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Front Cover	11
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Analysis and Guideline for Determining Piezoelectric Coefficient for Films With Substrate Constraint	11
Synthesizing Real-Time Ultrasound Images of Muscle Based on Biomechanical Simulation and Conditional Diffusion Network	11
Active Inference and Deep Generative Modeling for Cognitive Ultrasound	11
Introduction to the Special Issue on Histotripsy: Approaches, Mechanisms, Hardware, and Applications	11
Study on Loss mechanisms in SAW Resonators Using 42-LT Thin Plate by Full-3D FEM with Hierarchical Cascading Technique	11
A Solidly Mounted Resonator Fabricated by LiNbO₃ Single-Crystalline Film on Flexible Polyimide Substrate	10
Sparse Convolutional Beamforming for 3-D Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging	10
Real-Time In Vivo Imaging of Human Liver Vasculature Using Coherent Flow Power Doppler: A Pilot Clinical Study	10