Two-dimensional-ultrasonic-measurement-integrated blood flow analysis for the arm artery

Author(s):  
Seiichi KIMURA ◽  
Suguru MIYAUCHI ◽  
Toshiyuki HAYASE
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016.28 (0) ◽  
pp. _2F42-1_-_2F42-5_
Author(s):  
Hiroko KADOWAKI ◽  
Toshiyuki HAYASE ◽  
Suguru MIYAUCHI ◽  
Kosuke INOUE ◽  
Tadashi SHIMAZAKI ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Hiroko Kadowaki ◽  
Takuya Kishimoto ◽  
Takeshi Tokunaga ◽  
Koji Mori ◽  
Takashi Saito

Abstract Although blood viscosity has attracted much attention for its effect on hemodynamic parameters related to atherosclerosis, quantitative method for evaluating blood viscosity in vivo is not currently established. The purpose of this study was to verify the feasibility of blood viscosity estimation by a two-dimensional ultrasonic-measurement-integrated (2D-UMI) analysis system that computes an intravascular blood flow field by feeding back an ultrasonic measurement data to a numerical simulation. A method to estimate blood viscosity was proposed by reproducing the flow field of an analysis object in the feedback domain of ultrasonic Doppler velocity in a 2D-UMI blood flow analysis system, and evaluating the variation of the Doppler velocity caused by the analysis viscosity in the nonfeedback domain at the downstream side. In a numerical experiment, a viscosity estimation was performed for numerical solutions of sinusoidal oscillating flows analyzed as a blood flow model in a human common carotid artery at four different types of blood viscosities. The estimation viscosities were made to correspond to those of all analysis objects by giving proper conditions on the feedback gain and feedback domain to optimize the accuracy of the 2D-UMI blood flow analysis. In conclusion, the feasibility of blood viscosity estimation by 2D-UMI analysis was established. Simultaneous measurement of the in vivo blood viscosity and flow field can be easily performed in many clinical cases by its widespread use at clinical sites, thereby clarifying the relationship between hemodynamics and vascular pathology for various blood flow fields.


2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-00266-14-00266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroko KADOWAKI ◽  
Toshiyuki HAYASE ◽  
Kenichi FUNAMOTO ◽  
Shusaku SONE ◽  
Tadashi SHIMAZAKI ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Takuya Kishimoto ◽  
Hiroko Kadowaki ◽  
Takeshi Tokunaga ◽  
Koji Mori ◽  
Takashi Saito

Abstract Wall shear stress from blood flow is particularly considered to be a factor that promotes atherosclerosis, and is expressed as the product of blood viscosity and velocity gradient of blood flow. If in vivo wall shear stress can be evaluated by simultaneously measuring blood flow velocity and blood flow velocity gradient in real time, it is thought that blood viscosity estimation leads to elucidation of mechanism of arteriosclerosis and early detection. In previous study, a blood viscosity estimation method was proposed by applying two-dimensional ultrasonic-measurement-integrated (2D-UMI) blood-flow analysis reproducing an intravascular blood flow field by feeding back an ultrasonic measurement to a numerical fluid analysis. The estimation accuracy was examined by a numerical experiment under specific conditions. However, the effects of analysis conditions on this method are not verified. Accordingly, we investigated the effects of the feedback domain and the feedback gain on the estimation accuracy, and examined appropriate feedback conditions by a numerical experiment for a blood flow field of a straight blood vessel assuming a common carotid artery. As a result, it was suggested that the estimation accuracy generally improves as the feedback gain is increased in a specific feedback domain.


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