Recent technological advancements in cardiac ultrasound imaging

JK Dave, ME Mc Donald, P Mehrotra, AR Kohut… - Ultrasonics, 2018 - Elsevier
About 92.1 million Americans suffer from at least one type of cardiovascular disease.
Worldwide, cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death (about 31% of all …

Estimation of blood velocity, volumetric flow and wall shear rate using Doppler ultrasound

PR Hoskins - Ultrasound, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Commercial ultrasound systems can make a number of measurements related to
haemodynamics which are relevant to clinical practice and to clinical research. These …

A generic bioheat transfer thermal model for a perfused tissue

D Shrivastava, JT Vaughan - 2009 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
A thermal model was needed to predict temperatures in a perfused tissue, which satisfied
the following three criteria. One, the model satisfied conservation of energy. Two, the heat …

In vivo comparison of three ultrasound vector velocity techniques to MR phase contrast angiography

KL Hansen, J Udesen, N Oddershede, L Henze… - ultrasonics, 2009 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to validate angle independent vector velocity methods for
blood velocity estimation. Conventional Doppler ultrasound (US) only estimates the blood …

Haemodynamics and blood flow measured using ultrasound imaging

PR Hoskins - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Visualization of, and measurements related to, haemodynamic phenomena in arteries may
be made using ultrasound systems. Most ultrasound technology relies on simple …

Accuracy and reproducibility of a novel dynamic volume flow measurement method

S Ricci, M Cinthio, ÅR Ahlgren, P Tortoli - Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2013 - Elsevier
In clinical practice, blood volume flow (BVF) is typically calculated assuming a perfect
parabolic and axisymmetric velocity distribution. This simple approach cannot account for …

Mean volume flow estimation in pulsatile flow conditions

MS Richards, OD Kripfgans, JM Rubin, AL Hall… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2009 - Elsevier
To verify a previously reported three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound method for the
measurement of time-average volumetric blood flow, experiments were performed under …

Early enhanced external counter pulsation improves neurological recovery after the return of spontaneous circulation in a mongrel dog cardiac arrest model

CL Hu, R Liu, XX Liao, HY Wei, X Li, H Zhan… - Critical Care …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate whether early enhanced external counter
pulsation therapy after cardiopulmonary resuscitation improved neurological outcome in a …

Validation of endoscopic ultrasound measured flow rate in the azygos vein using a flow phantom

PR Hoskins, M Soldan, S Fortune, S Inglis… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2010 - Elsevier
Increase in flow rate within the azygos vein may be used as an indicator of the degree of
liver cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the error in measurement of flow rate …

Carotid Stenosis Assessed With a 4‐Dimensional Semiautomated Doppler System

F Forsberg, AD Stein, DA Merton… - … of Ultrasound in …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. The purpose of this study was to compare peak systolic velocities (PSVs) and the
degree of stenosis obtained with a real‐time 3‐dimensional (ie, 4‐dimensional) Doppler …