Wave reflection quantification based on pressure waveforms alone-methods, comparison, and clinical covariates

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 250-259

  Hametner, Bernhard ^a,b   Wassertheurer, Siegfried ^a,b   Kropf, Johannes ^a   Mayer, Christopher ^a   Holzinger, Andreas ^c   Eber, Bernd ^d   Weber, Thomas ^d  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d Klinikum Wels Grieskirchen GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Augmentation index; Augmentation pressure; Reflection magnitude; Wave separation analysis

Indexed keywords

AORTIC BLOOD FLOW; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; AUGMENTATION INDEX; COVARIATES; DOPPLER; DOPPLER MEASUREMENT; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; EJECTION FRACTION; FLOW MODEL; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; MODELING APPROACH; PRESSURE WAVEFORMS; PULSE WAVE; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC PRESSURE; WAVE FORMS; WAVE REFLECTIONS; WAVE SEPARATION; WINDKESSEL; WINDKESSEL MODELS;

DOPPLER EFFECT; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ADULT; AORTA FLOW; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC TIME INTERVAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WAVEFORM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874227413     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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