Middle Cerebral Artery Blood Flows by Combining TCD Velocities and MRA Diameters: In Vitro and InVivo Validations

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2692-2699

  Yonan, K A ^a   Greene, E R ^a,b   Sharrar, J M ^b   Caprihan, A ^b   Qualls, C ^b   Roldan, C A ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow phantom; Internal carotid artery blood flow; Invitro and invivo validation; Magnetic resonance angiography; Middle cerebral artery blood flow; Middle cerebral artery blood velocity; Middle cerebral artery lumen diameter; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC LOGIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; VELOCITY;

FLOW PHANTOM; IN-VIVO; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; VALIDATION STUDY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MORPHOMETRICS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84907984637     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.05.022     Document Type: Article

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