Ultrafast cardiac ultrasound imaging: technical principles, applications, and clinical benefits

M Cikes, L Tong, GR Sutherland, J D'hooge - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2014 - jacc.org
Several recent technical advances in cardiac ultrasound allow data to be acquired at a very
high frame rate. Retrospective gating, plane/diverging wave imaging, and multiline transmit …

Assessing the Performance of Ultrafast Vector Flow Imaging in the Neonatal Heart via Multiphysics Modeling and In Vitro Experiments

J Van Cauwenberge, L Lovstakken… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrafast vector flow imaging would benefit newborn patients with congenital heart disorders,
but still requires thorough validation before translation to clinical practice. This paper …

First report on intraoperative vector flow imaging of the heart among patients with healthy and diseased aortic valves

KL Hansen, H Møller-Sørensen, MM Pedersen… - Ultrasonics, 2015 - Elsevier
The vector velocity method Transverse Oscillation (TO) implemented on a conventional
ultrasound (US) scanner (ProFocus, BK Medical, Herlev, Denmark) can provide real-time …

Vector flow imaging compared with conventional Doppler ultrasound and thermodilution for estimation of blood flow in the ascending aorta

KL Hansen, H Møller-Sørensen… - Ultrasonic …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Transverse oscillation (TO) is a real-time ultrasound vector flow method implemented on a
commercial scanner. The TO setup was examined on a flowrig with constant and pulsatile …

Live ultrasound-based particle visualization of blood flow in the heart

P Angelelli, SR Snare, SA Nyrnes, S Bruckner… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We introduce an integrated method for the acquisition, processing and visualization of live,
in-vivo blood flow in the heart. The method is based on ultrasound imaging, using a plane …

Tapered vector Doppler for improved quantification of low velocity blood flow

IK Ekroll, V Perrot, H Liebgott… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new vector velocity estimation scheme is developed, termed tapered vector Doppler
(TVD), aiming to improve the accuracy of low velocity flow estimation. This is done by …

Speckle-enhanced cardiac blood flow imaging with high frame rate ultrasound

H Takahashi, H Hasegawa… - 2013 IEEE International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blood flow imaging in echocardiography helps users to evaluate the pumping function of the
human heart. As a typical method, color Doppler imaging has been widely used to obtain the …

Intraoperative vector flow imaging of the heart

KL Hansen, H Møller-Sørensen… - 2013 IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cardiac flow is complex and multidirectional, and difficult to measure with conventional
Doppler ultrasound (US) methods due to the one-dimensional and angle-dependent velocity …