Doppler vortography: A Color doppler approach to quantification of intraventricular blood flow vortices

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 210-221

  Mehregan, Forough ^a   Tournoux, François ^a   Muth, Stéphan ^a   Pibarot, Philippe ^b   Rieu, Régis ^c   Cloutier, Guy ^a,d   Garcia, Damien ^a,d  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Doppler vortography; Intraventricular blood flow; Vector flow mapping; Vortex imaging; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; VORTICITY;

BLOOD FLOW; CENTROSYMMETRIC; COLOR DOPPLER IMAGES; DOPPLER; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LEFT VENTRICLES; STRONG CORRELATION; VECTOR FLOW;

VORTEX FLOW;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER VORTOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VECTOR FLOW MAPPING; VORTEX MOTION;

DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER VORTOGRAPHY; INTRAVENTRICULAR BLOOD FLOW; VECTOR FLOW MAPPING; VORTEX IMAGING; VORTICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84888431936     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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