Numerical assessment of the impact of a flow wire on its velocity measurements

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1025-1036

  Hillewaert, Wim ^a,b   Courtens, Kathy ^a   McLaughlin, Myles ^c   Wauters, Joost ^d   Wilmer, Alexander ^d   Bijnens, Bart ^c   Claus, Piet ^c   Verdonck, Pascal ^a   Devos, Paul ^b   Segers, Patrick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Department INWE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CFD; Flow wire; Ultrasound; Velocity measurements

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ARTERIES; FLOW CONDITIONS; FLOW VELOCITIES; FLOW WIRES;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33745610016     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.03.016     Document Type: Article

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