Integrated physiological flow simulator and pulse sequence monitoring system for MRI

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-406

  Wong, Pauline ^a   Graves, Martin J ^a   Lomas, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; Frequency response; MRI; Pulsatile flow simulation; Pulse sequence monitoring

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULSATILE FLOW;

FLOW SIMULATOR; PHYSIOLOGICAL WAVEFORMS; PULSATILE FLOW SIMULATION; PULSE SEQUENCE MONITORING; SCANNER SYSTEM ACTIVITY;

FLOW SIMULATION;

ACCURACY; AORTA FLOW; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MONITORING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PULSATILE FLOW; RECORDING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATOR; WAVEFORM;

AORTA; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PULSATILE FLOW;

EID: 41149100969     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-008-0319-x     Document Type: Article

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