Development of a Vessel-Mimicking Material for use in Anatomically Realistic Doppler Flow Phantoms

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 813-826

  King, Deirdre M ^a   Moran, Carmel M ^b   McNamara, John D ^a   Fagan, Andrew J ^c   Browne, Jacinta E ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Acoustic and mechanical characterization; Anatomically realistic flow phantom; Polyvinyl alcohol cryogel; Ultrasound phantom; Vessel mimic

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICALLY REALISTIC FLOW PHANTOM; ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT; CRYOGELS; DOPPLER; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; FLOW PHANTOM; FREEZE/THAW CYCLES; HIGHER-DEGREE; IN-VIVO; MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; SILICON CARBIDE PARTICLES; SPEED OF SOUNDS; STENOSES; ULTRASOUND PHANTOM; VESSEL MIMIC; YOUNG'S ELASTIC MODULUS;

SILICON CARBIDE;

ULTRASONICS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; SILICON CARBIDE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FREEZE THAWING; GEL; IN VIVO STUDY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSELS; HYDROGELS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 79954453466     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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