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Contrast flow velocity quantification from time-resolved CT angiography: a phantom study Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in replacing digital subtraction angiography (DSA) as method of choice for the diagnostic imaging of patients suffering from lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Due to small vessel diameters and suboptimal resolution, examinations of below-the-knee arteries however remain extremely challenging. The advent of wide beam CT scanners allows to perform multiple CT acquisitions over ...
Internal loading of phosphate in rivers reduces at higher flow velocity and is reduced by iron rich sand application: an experimental study in flumes KU Leuven
Many lowland regions are afflicted with high phosphorus (P) peaks in rivers during the summer months. Static incubations of sediments have shown that reductive dissolution of ferric iron (Fe(III)) minerals in the sediment explain these P peaks. This study was set up to identify if that mechanism also dominates in a dynamic system, thereby testing the roles of water flow velocity and sediment Fe/P ratio. Decreasing flow velocity was suspected to ...
Two-dimensional blood velocity estimation with ultrasound: speckle tracking versus crossed-beam vector Doppler based on flow simulations in a carotid bifurcation model Ghent University
Detailed imaging of complex blood flow may improve early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. In clinical practice, non-invasive flow imaging has been limited to onedimensional Doppler techniques. Searching for multi-dimensional estimators, research has given attention to speckle tracking (ST) and vector Doppler (VD). However, these techniques have yet to be validated for complex flow patterns as may arise in diseased arteries. In this work, the ...
Automated Quantification of Blood Flow Velocity from Time-Resolved CT Angiography Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Contrast-enhanced computed tomography angiography (CE-CTA) provides valuable, non-invasive assessment of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The advent of wide beam CT scanners has enabled multiple CT acquisitions over the same structure at a high frame rate, facilitating time-resolved CTA acquisitions. In this study, we investigate the technical feasibility of automatically quantifying the bolus arrival time and blood velocity in ...
Assessment of variables affecting late left ventricular flow propagation velocity Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Early colour M-mode flow propagation velocity (Vpe) in the left ventricle is a well-known non-invasive index for assessing left ventricular relaxation. However, the utility and determinants of late colour M-mode flow propagation (Vpa) have received little attention to date. Vpa as a representation of the left ventricular vortex travelling velocity during late filling could have a distinct role in differentiating potential subgroups in diastolic ...
Assessment of variables affecting late left ventricular flow propagation velocity Ghent University
Early colour M-mode flow propagation velocity (Vpe) in the left ventricle is a well-known non-invasive index for assessing left ventricular relaxation. However, the utility and determinants of late colour M-mode flow propagation (Vpa) have received little attention to date. Vpa as a representation of the left ventricular vortex travelling velocity during late filling could have a distinct role in differentiating potential subgroups in diastolic ...
Simulation and experimental studies on plasma temperature, flow velocity, and injector diameter effects for an inductively coupled plasma University of Antwerp
An inductively coupled plasma (ICP) is analyzed by means of experiments and numerical simulation. Important plasma properties are analyzed, namely, the effective temperature inside the central channel and the mean flow velocity inside the plasma. Furthermore, the effect of torches with different injector diameters is studied by the model. The temperature inside the central channel is determined from the end-on collected line-to-background ratio ...
Response of submerged macrophyte growth, morphology, chlorophyll content and nutrient stoichiometry to increased flow velocity and elevated CO₂ and dissolved organic carbon concentrations University of Antwerp
It is expected that climate change will cause more frequent extreme events of heavy precipitation and drought, changing hydrological conditions in riverine ecosystems, such as flow velocity, evapotranspiration (drought) or runoff (heavy precipitation). This can lead to an increased input of terrestrial organic matter and elevated levels of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and CO2 due to degradational processes in water. Consequences for submerged ...
Ultrasound Simulation of Complex Flow Velocity Fields Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics Ghent University
In this work, a simulation environment for the development of flow-related ultrasound algorithms is presented. Ultrasound simulations of realistic Doppler signals require accurate modeling of blood flow. Instead of using analytically described flow behavior, complex blood movement can be derived from velocity fields obtained with computational fluid dynamics (CFD). By further modeling blood as a collection of point scatterers, resulting ...