Role of Ultrasonic Shear Rate Estimation Errors in Assessing Inflammatory Response and Vascular Risk

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 963-972

  Tsou, Jean K ^a   Liu, Jie ^b   Barakat, Abdul I ^a   Insana, Michael F ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood velocity estimation; Cell adhesion molecules; Coded pulse excitation; Range lobes; Time band width product

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BLOOD VELOCITY ESTIMATION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CODED-PULSE EXCITATION; RANGE LOBES; TIME-BAND-WIDTH PRODUCTS;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRESS;

AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSELS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; E-SELECTIN; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK; SHEAR STRENGTH; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1;

EID: 43849110258     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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