A Method to Estimate Wall Shear Rate with a Clinical Ultrasound Scanner

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 760-774

  Blake, James R ^a   Meagher, Siobhan ^a   Fraser, Katharine H ^a   Easson, William J ^a   Hoskins, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Flow phantoms; Wall shear rate; Womersley

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; ERROR ANALYSIS; SCANNING; SHEAR DEFORMATION; ULTRASONICS;

DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; ESTIMATE WALL SHEAR RATE; FLOW IMAGING; FLOW PHANTOMS; VASCULAR PHANTOMS; WALL SHEAR RATE; WOMERSLEY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

AORTA; ARTERIES; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERIES; ELASTICITY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 42949165404     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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