Brachial artery: Measurement of flow-mediated dilatation with cross-sectional US - Technical validation

Radiology

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 895-900

  Kao, Yen Hong ^a   Mohler, Emile R ^a   Arger, Peter H ^a   Sehgal, Chandra M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteries, extremities; Arteries, US; Blood, flow dynamics; Computers; Phantoms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; APPARATUS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUNTEER;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASODILATION;

EID: 0042931338     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2283020966     Document Type: Article

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