Title :
An intracardiac blood flow vector mapping method
Author :
Chihara, Kunihiro ; Shirae, Kimisuke
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng. Sci., Osaka Univ., Japan
Abstract :
A method is presented to estimate the flow vector from the Doppler frequency measured by a color Doppler device and to image a flow vector using an arrow line on a color display. A theoretical background is provided by the continuity equation. It is shown that experimental results in model flow and clinical application are effective to understand intracardiac blood flow dynamics.<>
Keywords :
biomedical ultrasonics; cardiology; flow measurement; haemodynamics; Doppler frequency; color Doppler device; continuity equation; intracardiac blood flow vector mapping method;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.94614
