MR elastography as a method to estimate aortic stiffness and its comparison against MR based pulse wave velocity measurement

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Measurement of aortic arch pulse wave velocity in cardiovascular MR: Comparison of transit time estimators and description of a new approach

✍ Anas Dogui; Alban Redheuil; Muriel Lefort; Alain DeCesare; Nadjia Kachenoura; Al 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 215 KB

## Abstract ## Purpose: To investigate the efficiency of a new method (TT‐Upslope) for transit time (Δt) estimation from cardiovascular MR (CMR) velocity curves. ## Materials and Methods: Fifty healthy volunteers (40 ± 15 years) underwent applanation tonometry to estimate carotid–femoral pulse w