A new laser-Doppler velocimeter (LDV) for high speed flow measurements (three-dimensional flows with speeds greater than 610 m/s) is being developed based in-part upon an existing low speed instrument capable of high resolution, near surface velocity vector measurements. The key technology for the instrument is a sub-miniature laser-Doppler velocimeter (SMLDV); a similar low-speed version of wh...

An experimental comparison method is proposed for theverification of mean flow and turbulence measurements obtainedwith a three-dimensional laser Doppler velocimeter system. Suchmeasurements can include large errors caused by problems uniqueto three-dimensional systems. Direct comparisons of laser and hotcross-wire measurements obtained in two-dimensional flows, as isthe...

BACKGROUND Greater occipital nerve block is used in the treatment of headaches and neuralgia in the occipital area. We evaluated the efficacy of ultrasonic doppler flowmeter-guided occipital nerve block in patients experiencing headache in the occipital region in a randomized, prospective, placebo-controlled study. METHODS Twenty-six patients, aged 18 to 70, with headache in the occipital reg...

This paper describes an exploratory analysis on the usefulness of the information made available from Ultrasonic Doppler signal data collected from a single speaker, to detect velum movement associated to European Portuguese nasal vowels. This is directly related to the unsolved problem of detecting nasality in silent speech interfaces. The applied procedure uses Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Im...