Pulse-wave velocity measured in one hear
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Christopher K. Macgowan; R. Mark Henkelman; Michael L. Wood
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A noninvasive method for measuring the aortic pulse-wave velocity (PWV) in a single heartbeat is introduced. The method sinusoidally tags a column of blood within the vessel, and rapidly acquires a series of 1D projections of the tags as they move (in practice, 64 projections at 4-ms intervals). Fro