Simultaneous Ultrasound Assessment of Brachial Artery Shear Stimulus and Flow-Mediated Dilation During Reactive Hyperemia

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1561-1570

  Tortoli, Piero ^a   Palombo, Carlo ^b   Ghiadoni, Lorenzo ^b   Bini, Giacomo ^b   Francalanci, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterial diameter measurement; Blood velocity profiles; Flow mediated dilation; FMD; Wall distension; Wall shear rate; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL DIAMETER; BLOOD VELOCITY PROFILES; FLOW-MEDIATED DILATION; FMD; WALL DISTENSION; WALL SHEAR RATES; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; SHEAR DEFORMATION; ULTRASONICS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR RATE; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASODILATION;

EID: 80052873786     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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