## Abstract ## Purpose To validate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) assessment of aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV~MRI~) with PWV determined from invasive intraβaortic pressure measurements (PWV~INV~) and to test the reproducibility of the measurement by MRI. ## Materials and Methods PWV~MRI~ was
Pulmonary pulse wave velocity as assessed with velocity-encoded MRI
β Scribed by Heynric Grotenhuis; Wouter Stomp; Jos J Westenberg; Albert de Roos
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 68 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6647
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β¦ Synopsis
Pulmonary pulse wave velocity has proven to be an excellent indicator of pulmonary vascular wall stiffness. In this study a novel MRI method was evaluated, showing rapid assessment of pulmonary pulse wave velocity with excellent repeatability and observer reproducibility.
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