Multigate Doppler Measurements of Ultrasonic Attenuation and Blood Hematocrit in Human Arteries

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 230-236

  Secomski, Wojciech ^a   Nowicki, Andrzej ^a   Tortoli, Piero ^b   Olszewski, Robert ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c MILITARY INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Blood; Doppler; Hematocrit; Ultrasonic attenuation

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; AVERAGING METHODS; BLOOD FLOWS; BRACHIAL ARTERIES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; DOPPLER; DOPPLER ULTRASOUNDS; ECHO SIGNALS; FLOW CONDITIONS; HEMATOCRIT; IN VITRO; IN VIVO MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR RELATIONS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERRORS; MULTIGATE DOPPLER; NONINVASIVE MEASUREMENTS; PERISTALTIC PUMPS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION; ULTRASOUND ATTENUATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD; CORRELATION METHODS; HEMODYNAMICS; PULSATILE FLOW; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

DIELECTRIC DEVICES;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SWINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249134603     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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