Carotid stenosis assessed with a 4-dimensional semiautomated Doppler system

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1337-1344

  Forsberg, Flemming ^a   Stein, Alan D ^b,c   Merton, Daniel A ^a   Lipcan, Kathryn J ^a   Herzog, Donald ^b,c   Parker, Laurence ^a   Needleman, Laurence ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VueSonix Sensors Inc   (United States)

^c Seno Medical Instruments Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

4 dimensional color Doppler imaging; Carotid disease; Real time 3 dimensional Doppler imaging; Volume flow measurements

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VELOCITY;

3-DIMENSIONAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ULTRASOUNDS; COLOR DOPPLER IMAGING; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PEAK SYSTOLIC VELOCITIES; TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; SYSTOLE;

EID: 54149094860     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2008.27.9.1337     Document Type: Article

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