  This paper deals with the problem of building fast and reliable 3D
reconstruction methods for blood flows for which partial information is given
by Doppler ultrasound measurements. This task is of interest in medicine since
it could enrich the available information used in the diagnosis of certain
diseases which is currently based essentially on the measurements coming from
ultrasound devices. The fast reconstruction of the full flow can be performed
with state estimation methods that have been introduced in recent years and
that involve reduced order models. One simple and efficient strategy is the
so-called Parametrized Background Data-Weak approach (PBDW). It is a linear
mapping that consists in a least squares fit between the measurement data and a
linear reduced model to which a certain correction term is added. However, in
the original approach, the reduced model is built a priori and independently of
the reconstruction task (typically with a proper orthogonal decomposition or a
greedy algorithm). In this paper, we investigate the construction of other
reduced spaces which are built to be better adapted to the reconstruction task
and which result in mappings that are sometimes nonlinear. We compare the
performance of the different algorithms on numerical experiments involving
synthetic Doppler measurements. The results illustrate the superiority of the
proposed alternatives to the classical linear PBDW approach.
