Ultrasound measurement of brachial flow-mediated vasodilator response

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 621-631

  Fan, Liexiang ^a   Santago, Peter ^a   Jiang, Huai ^a   Herrington, David M ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; BACKSCATTERING;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; FLOW-MEDIATED VASODILATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VASODILATATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VASODILATION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0034195225     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.870669     Document Type: Article

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