Accuracy and Precision of a Plane Wave Vector Flow Imaging Method in the Healthy Carotid Artery

The objective of the study described here was to investigate the accuracy and precision of a plane wave 2-D vector flow imaging (VFI) method in laminar and complex blood flow conditions in the healthy carotid artery. The approach was to study (i) the accuracy for complex flow by comparing the velocity field from a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation to VFI estimates obtained from the scan of an anthropomorphic flow phantom and from an in vivo scan; (ii) the accuracy for laminar unidirectional flow in vivo by comparing peak systolic velocities from VFI with magnetic resonance angiography (MRA); (iii) the precision of VFI estimation in vivo at several evaluation points in the vessels.

Source: Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology - May 4, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Jonas Jensen, Carlos Armando Villag ómez Hoyos, Marie Sand Traberg, Jacob Bjerring Olesen, Borislav Gueorguiev Tomov, Ramin Moshavegh, Simon Holbek, Matthias Bo Stuart, Caroline Ewertsen, Kristoffer Lindskov Hansen, Carsten Thomsen, Michael Bachmann Niel Tags: Original Contribution Source Type: research