Mafalda Correia, Jean Provost, Mickael Tanter and Mathieu Pernot
Article (2016)
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Abstract
We present herein 4D ultrafast ultrasound flow imaging, a novel ultrasound-based volumetric imaging technique for the quantitative mapping of blood flow. Complete volumetric blood flow distribution imaging was achieved through 2D tilted plane-wave insonification, 2D multi-angle cross-beam beamforming, and 3D vector Doppler velocity components estimation by least-squares fitting. 4D ultrafast ultrasound flow imaging was performed in large volumetric fields of view at very high volume rate (>4000 volumes s(-1)) using a 1024-channel 4D ultrafast ultrasound scanner and a 2D matrix-array transducer. The precision of the technique was evaluated in vitro by using 3D velocity vector maps to estimate volumetric flow rates in a vessel phantom. Volumetric Flow rate errors of less than 5% were found when volumetric flow rates and peak velocities were respectively less than 360 ml min(-1) and 100 cm s(-1). The average volumetric flow rate error increased to 18.3% when volumetric flow rates and peak velocities were up to 490 ml min(-1) and 1.3 m s(-1), respectively. The in vivo feasibility of the technique was shown in the carotid arteries of two healthy volunteers. The 3D blood flow velocity distribution was assessed during one cardiac cycle in a full volume and it was used to quantify volumetric flow rates (375 +/- 57 ml min(-1) and 275 +/- 43 ml min(-1)). Finally, the formation of 3D vortices at the carotid artery bifurcation was imaged at high volume rates.
Uncontrolled Keywords
Blood Flow Velocity; Carotid Arteries/diagnostic imaging/*physiology; Heart/diagnostic imaging/*physiology; Heart Rate; Hemodynamics; Humans; *Phantoms, Imaging; Ultrasonography/*methods
Subjects: |
3100 Physics > 3100 Physics 3100 Physics > 3110 Optics (see also Photon devices, 2505) |
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Department: | Department of Engineering Physics |
Funders: | European Research Council - European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres |
Grant number: | 311025 |
PolyPublie URL: | https://publications.polymtl.ca/4830/ |
Journal Title: | Physics in Medicine & Biology (vol. 61, no. 23) |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
DOI: | 10.1088/0031-9155/61/23/l48 |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/61/23/l48 |
Date Deposited: | 11 May 2023 14:03 |
Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2024 21:43 |
Cite in APA 7: | Correia, M., Provost, J., Tanter, M., & Pernot, M. (2016). 4D ultrafast ultrasound flow imaging: in vivo quantification of arterial volumetric flow rate in a single heartbeat. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 61(23), L48-L61. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/61/23/l48 |
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