A thin-walled carotid vessel phantom for Doppler ultrasound flow studies

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1067-1078

  Poepping, Tamie L ^a,b   Nikolov, Hristo N ^a   Thorne, Meghan L ^a,b   Holdsworth, David W ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic attenuation; Acoustic velocity; Carotid artery bifurcation; Doppler ultrasound; Elastic modulus; Flow phantom; Silicone elastomer; Speed of sound; Sylgard 184; Tissue mimicking material; Vessel mimicking material

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ATTENUATION; SILICONES; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION; ECHOGENECITY; SPECKLE TEXTURE; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS (TMM);

BLOOD VESSELS;

AGAR; SILASTIC; WATER;

AIR; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BLOOD VESSEL; CAROTID ARTERY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EXPOSURE; GEOMETRY; MATERIALS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

CAROTID ARTERIES; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 4944253451     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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