Piecewise Pulse Wave Imaging (pPWI) for Detection and Monitoring of Focal Vascular Disease in Murine Aortas and Carotids in Vivo

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 13-28

  Apostolakis, Iason Zacharias ^a   Nandlall, Sacha D ^a   Konofagou, Elisa E ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA); Atherosclerosis; Localized stiffness mapping; Pulse wave imaging; Pulse wave velocity; Speckle tracking; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; PULSE WAVE; PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; SPECKLE TRACKING; STIFFNESS MAPPING;

DISEASES;

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART CYCLE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIPID DIET; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIECEWISE PULSE WAVE IMAGING; PULSE WAVE; RAT; ANIMAL; AORTA; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84959324212     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2015.2453194     Document Type: Article

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