Non-invasive measurement of arterial longitudinal movement

Summary, in English

In arterial vessel wall characterisation the longitudinal movements of vessels have gained little or no attention. It has been presumed that the arterial vessels move very little in the longitudinal direction. With modern high resolution ultrasound it can, however, be seen that arterial vessels move not only in the circumferential, but also in longitudinal direction. This paper describes a non-invasive, ultrasound based method which estimates the longitudinal and the circumferential movement, respectively. The method is demonstrated in a limited in vivo study of the common carotid artery. Results show that, apart from the well known circumferential movement, there is a distinct longitudinal movement.

• Author: Magnus Persson; Åsa Rydén Ahlgren; Anders Eriksson; Tomas Jansson; Hans W Persson; Kjell Lindström
• Department/s: Department of Biomedical Engineering; Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Malmö
• Publishing year: 2002
• Language: English
• Pages: 1783-1786
• Publication/Series: Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium
• Volume: 2
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2002.1192644
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Topic: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
• Keywords: Non-invasive measurement; Arterial longitudinal movement
• Conference name: IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 2002
• Conference date: 2002-10-08 - 2002-10-11
• Conference place: Munich, Germany
• Status: Published
• Research group: Clinical Physiology, Malmö
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1051-0117; CODEN: PIEUEZ