The Effect of Flow Acceleration on the Cyclic Variation of Blood Echogenicity Under Pulsatile Flow

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 670-680

  Huang, Chih Chung ^a   Liao, Chen Chih ^a   Lee, Po Yang ^a   Shih, Cho Chiang ^a  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cyclic variation; Echogenicity; Erythrocyte aggregation; Pulsatile flow; Ultrasonic attenuation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; FLOW VELOCITY; HEMODYNAMICS; PULSATILE FLOW; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

ACCELERATION PATTERN; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CYCLIC VARIATIONS; ECHOGENICITY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; PULSATILE BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; BLOOD FLOW ACCELERATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGENICITY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; HEMATOCRIT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SHEAR RATE; SWINE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 84875096847     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.10.018     Document Type: Article

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