Visualizing blood flow patterns using streamlines, arrows, and particle paths

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 210-226

  Buonocore, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow visualization; Image processing; MRI; Velocity encoded phase imaging

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VELOCITY; VISUALIZATION;

BLOOD FLOW PATTERNS; CORONARY ARTERIES; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; PHASE IMAGING; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); VASCULAR INTERVENTIONS;

FLOW PATTERNS;

ADULT; AORTA FLOW; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DESCENDING AORTA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031830533     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910400207     Document Type: Article

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