Combined Computational and Experimental Approach to Improve the Assessment of Mitral Regurgitation by Echocardiography

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 971-985

  Sonntag, Simon J ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Becker, Michael ^b   Kaestner, Wiebke ^b   Büsen, Martin R ^a   Marx, Nikolaus ^b   Merhof, Dorit ^a   Steinseifer, Ulrich ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color Doppler imaging; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Mitral valve insufficiency; Particle Image Velocimetry; Simulated Doppler Ultrasound; Validation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

COLOR DOPPLER IMAGING; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; MITRAL VALVES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; VALIDATION;

DOPPLER EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PUMP; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLOW CHAMBER; FLOW RATE; GEOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DEVICE; LASER FLOWMETER; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATED DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RHEOLOGY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84898548004     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-013-0968-2     Document Type: Article

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