3-D flow reconstruction using divergence-free interpolation of multiple 2-D contrast-enhanced ultrasound particle imaging velocimetry measurements
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Author(s)
Zhou, Xinhuan
Papadopoulou, Virginie
Leow, Chee Hau
Vincent, Peter
Tang, Meng-Xing
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Quantification of 3-D intravascular flow is valuable for studying arterial wall diseases but currently there is a lack of effective clinical tools for this purpose. Divergence-free interpolation (DFI) using radial basis function (RBF) is an emerging approach for full-field flow reconstruction using experimental sparse flow field samples. Previous DFI reconstructs full-field flow from scattered 3-D velocity input obtained using phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging with low temporal resolution. In this study, a new DFI algorithm is proposed to reconstruct full-field flow from scattered 2-D in-plane velocity vectors obtained using ultrafast contrast-enhanced ultrasound (>1000 fps) and particle imaging velocimetry. The full 3-D flow field is represented by a sum of weighted divergence-free RBFs in space. Because the acquired velocity vectors are only in 2-D and hence the problem is ill-conditioned, a regularized solution of the RBF weighting is achieved through singular value decomposition (SVD) and the L-curve method. The effectiveness of the algorithm is determined via numerical experiments for Poiseuille flow and helical flow with added noise, and it is found that an accuracy as high as 95.6% can be achieved for Poiseuille flow (with 5% input noise). Experimental feasibility is also determined by reconstructing full-field 3-D flow from experimental 2-D ultrasound image velocimetry measurements in a carotid bifurcation phantom. The method is typically faster for a range of problems compared with computational fluid dynamics, and has been found to be effective for the three flow cases.
Date Issued
2019-03-01
Date Acceptance
2018-10-29
Citation
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 2019, 45 (3), pp.795-810
ISSN
0301-5629
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
795
End Page
810
Journal / Book Title
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume
45
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. This is an open access article under the CC BY license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Sponsor
British Heart Foundation
Grant Number
PG/16/95/32350
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Acoustics
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
3-D flow reconstruction
Divergence-free interpolation
Ultrafast Contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging velocimetry
PIV
OPTIMAL SHAPE-PARAMETERS
RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS
BLOOD-FLOW
ARTERIAL-WALL
CAROTID BIFURCATION
PULSATILE FLOW
ATHEROSCLEROSIS
VELOCITY
DOPPLER
SIMULATION
3-D flow reconstruction
Divergence-free interpolation
PIV
Ultrafast Contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging velocimetry
Acoustics
1103 Clinical Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-01-04