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High PRF ultrafast sliding compound doppler imaging: fully qualitative and quantitative analysis of blood flow

Authors
 Jinbum Kang  ;  Won Seuk Jang  ;  Yangmo Yoo 
Citation
 PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, Vol.63(4) : 045004, 2018 
Journal Title
PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
ISSN
 0031-9155 
Issue Date
2018
Abstract
Ultrafast compound Doppler imaging based on plane-wave excitation (UCDI) can be used to evaluate cardiovascular diseases using high frame rates. In particular, it provides a fully quantifiable flow analysis over a large region of interest with high spatio-temporal resolution. However, the pulse-repetition frequency (PRF) in the UCDI method is limited for high-velocity flow imaging since it has a tradeoff between the number of plane-wave angles (N) and acquisition time. In this paper, we present high PRF ultrafast sliding compound Doppler imaging method (HUSDI) to improve quantitative flow analysis. With the HUSDI method, full scanline images (i.e. each tilted plane wave data) in a Doppler frame buffer are consecutively summed using a sliding window to create high-quality ensemble data so that there is no reduction in frame rate and flow sensitivity. In addition, by updating a new compounding set with a certain time difference (i.e. sliding window step size or L), the HUSDI method allows various Doppler PRFs with the same acquisition data to enable a fully qualitative, retrospective flow assessment. To evaluate the performance of the proposed HUSDI method, simulation, in vitro and in vivo studies were conducted under diverse flow circumstances. In the simulation and in vitro studies, the HUSDI method showed improved hemodynamic representations without reducing either temporal resolution or sensitivity compared to the UCDI method. For the quantitative analysis, the root mean squared velocity error (RMSVE) was measured using 9 angles (-12 degrees to 12 degrees ) with L of 1-9, and the results were found to be comparable to those of the UCDI method (L = N = 9), i.e. 0.24 cm s(-1), for all L values. For the in vivo study, the flow data acquired from a full cardiac cycle of the femoral vessels of a healthy volunteer were analyzed using a PW spectrogram, and arterial and venous flows were successfully assessed with high Doppler PRF (e.g. 5 kHz at L = 4). These results indicate that the proposed HUSDI method can improve flow visualization and quantification with a higher frame rate, PRF and flow sensitivity in cardiovascular imaging.
Full Text
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6560/aaa7a2/meta
DOI
10.1088/1361-6560/aaa7a2
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Medical Engineering (의학공학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Chang, Won Seok(장원석) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3549
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/162563
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