Pulse wave imaging of normal and aneurysmal abdominal aortas in vivo

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 477-486

  Luo, Jianwen ^a   Fujikura, Kana ^a   Tyrie, Leslie S ^b   Tilson Jr , M David ^b,c   Konofagou, Elisa E ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA); Pulse wave; Speckle tracking; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTAS; ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM (AAA); ANGIOTENSIN II; AORTIC WALLS; CARDIAC CYCLES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; CRITICAL VALUES; EARLY DETECTIONS; FIELD OF VIEWS; GATING TECHNIQUES; HIGH FRAME RATES; IN-VIVO; INHOMOGENEITIES; NON-UNIFORM; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PULSE WAVE; PULSE-WAVE VELOCITIES; RADIO-FREQUENCY SIGNALS; REDUCED WALLS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SPECKLE TRACKING; TWO POINTS; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR DISEASE; WALL VELOCITIES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ANGIOTENSIN II;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 63849111816     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.928179     Document Type: Article

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