A new echocardiographic method for identifying vortex flow in the left ventricle: Numerical validation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 772-788

  Uejima, Tokuhisa ^a,d,e   Koike, Akira ^a   Sawada, Hitoshi ^a   Aizawa, Tadanori ^a   Ohtsuki, Shigeo ^b   Tanaka, Motonao ^c   Furukawa, Tetsushi ^d   Fraser, Alan G ^e  

^a THE CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Medical Ultrasound Technology Institute   (Japan)

^c Tohoku Kouseinenkin Hospital   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood flow visualization; Color Doppler image; Vortex

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW DYNAMICS; COLOR DOPPLER; COLOR DOPPLER IMAGES; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTION OF VELOCITY; LEFT VENTRICLES; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL FLOW MODELS; NUMERICAL VALIDATIONS; POLAR COORDINATE; RADIAL VELOCITY; REASONABLE ACCURACY; STANDARD ERRORS; STREAMFUNCTIONS; VECTOR FLOW; VELOCITY FIELD; VELOCITY VECTORS;

BLOOD; COLOR; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY; VORTICITY;

DOPPLER EFFECT;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77952320362     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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