Accuracy and Reproducibility of a Novel Dual-Beam Vector Doppler Method

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 829-838

  Ricci, Stefano ^a   Diciotti, Stefano ^a   Francalanci, Lorenzo ^a   Tortoli, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Angle dependence; Blood velocity measurement; Carotid artery; Dual beam method; Reproducibility; Ultrasound; Vector Doppler

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANGLE-DEPENDENCE; BLOOD VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; CAROTID ARTERY; DUAL-BEAM METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASOUND; VECTOR DOPPLER;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; ISOMERS; LAMINAR FLOW; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; VECTORS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

VELOCITY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAMINAR FLOW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 67349109134     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.10.012     Document Type: Article

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