Development of a range of anatomically realistic renal artery flow phantoms

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1135-1144

  King, Deirdre M ^a   Ring, Michael ^b   Moran, Carmel M ^c   Browne, Jacinta E ^a  

^a School of Physics   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomical flow phantom; Doppler ultrasound; In vitro experimentation; Renal arteries; Stenosis; Tissue mimicking material

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; FLOW PHANTOM; IN-VITRO; RENAL ARTERIES; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST REDUCTION; INVESTMENT CASTING; LIQUID METALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PRECISION CASTING; SMELTING; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACCURACY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; MELTING POINT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL CIRCULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953890057     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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