Blood motion in the heart features vortices that accompany the redirection of jet flows
towards the outlet tracks. Vortices have a crucial role in fluid dynamics. The stability of …

Blood flow patterns are closely linked to the morphology and function of the cardiovascular
system. These patterns reflect the exceptional adaptability of the cardiovascular system to …

Whole-field velocity measurement techniques based on ultrasound imaging (aka 'ultrasound
imaging velocimetry'or 'echo-PIV') have received significant attention from the fluid …

This paper gives a review of the most important methods for blood velocity vector flow
imaging (VFI) for conventional sequential data acquisition. This includes multibeam …

Doppler echocardiography remains the most extended clinical modality for the evaluation of
left ventricular (LV) function. Current Doppler ultrasound methods, however, are limited to …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the
western world. In the last three decades, fluid dynamics investigations have been an …

Aims In aortic regurgitation (AR), energy loss (EL) produced by inefficient turbulent flow may
be a burden to the heart predicting decompensation. We attempted to quantify EL in AR …

Analysis of intracardiac flows has gained increasing interest in the last years. This analysis
has become possible due to the development of technologies for noninvasive …

Non-invasive cardiovascular imaging initially focused on heart structures, allowing the
visualization of their motion and inferring its functional status from it. Colour-Doppler and …

Aims This study investigated the incremental role of echocardiographic-contrast particle
image velocimetry (Echo-PIV) in patients with heart failure (HF) for measuring changes in left …