Womersley number-based estimates of blood flow rate in doppler analysis: In vivo validation by means of phase-contrast MRI

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1807-1815

  Ponzini, Raffaele ^a   Vergara, Christian ^b   Rizzo, Giovanna ^c,d   Veneziani, Alessandro ^e   Roghi, Alberto ^f   Vanzulli, Angelo ^f   Parodi, Oberdan ^f,g   Redaelli, Alberto ^h  

^a High Performance Computing Division   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^h POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Doppler estimate; Doppler ultrasound; Phase contrast MRI (PCMRI); Womersley number

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; DOPPLER EFFECT; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY;

BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; PHASE CONTRAST MRI; WOMERSLEY NUMBERS;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; GOLD STANDARD; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; WOMERSLEY NUMBER; ARTERY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77953766683     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2046484     Document Type: Article

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