Flow velocity mapping using contrast enhanced high-frame-rate plane wave ultrasound and image tracking: methods and initial in vitro and in vivo evaluation
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Ultrasound imaging is the most widely used method for visualising and quantifying blood flow in medical practice, but existing techniques have various limitations in terms of imaging sensitivity, field of view, flow angle dependence, and imaging depth. In this study, we developed an ultrasound imaging velocimetry approach capable of visualising and quantifying dynamic flow, by combining high-frame-rate plane wave ultrasound imaging, microbubble contrast agents, pulse inversion contrast imaging and speckle image tracking algorithms. The system was initially evaluated in vitro on both straight and carotid-mimicking vessels with steady and pulsatile flows and in vivo in the rabbit aorta. Colour and spectral Doppler measurements were also made. Initial flow mapping results were compared with theoretical prediction and reference Doppler measurements and indicate the potential of the new system as a highly sensitive, accurate, angle-independent and full field-of-view velocity mapping tool capable of tracking and quantifying fast and dynamic flows.
Date Issued
2015-11-01
Date Acceptance
2015-06-16
Citation
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 2015, 41 (11), pp.2913-2925
ISSN
0301-5629
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
2913
End Page
2925
Journal / Book Title
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume
41
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
British Heart Foundation
Identifier
https://www.umbjournal.org/article/S0301-5629(15)00410-X/fulltext
Grant Number
EP/K503733/1
EP/M011933/1
RG/11/5/28743
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Acoustics
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Flow
Microbubble contrast agents
Ultrafast ultrasound imaging
Ultrasound imaging velocimetry
Echo-particle image velocimetry
Atherosclerosis
Image tracking
SHEAR-STRESS
BLOOD-FLOW
SPECKLE TRACKING
CAROTID-ARTERY
DOPPLER
VELOCIMETRY
FLUID
QUANTIFICATION
VALIDATION
PHANTOMS
Atherosclerosis
Echo-particle image velocimetry
Flow
Image tracking
Microbubble contrast agents
Ultrafast ultrasound imaging
Ultrasound imaging velocimetry
Algorithms
Animals
Aorta
Blood Flow Velocity
Contrast Media
Echocardiography, Doppler
Image Enhancement
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
Microbubbles
Phantoms, Imaging
Rabbits
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Aorta
Animals
Rabbits
Contrast Media
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
Image Enhancement
Echocardiography, Doppler
Blood Flow Velocity
Sensitivity and Specificity
Reproducibility of Results
Microbubbles
Phantoms, Imaging
Algorithms
Acoustics
1103 Clinical Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2015-08-12