In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Vol. 133, No. 5_Supplement ( 2013-05-01), p. 3541-3541
Abstract:
The dynamic phenomena of erythrocyte aggregation (EA) need to be analyzed statistically since EA varies spatially and temporally. In the present study, the cross-sectional B-mode images were acquired from a mock circulatory system with varying blood flow velocity under steady flow, and the human radial artery using an ultrasound biomicroscopy system at 20 MHz. The kurtosis (K) and skewness (S) coefficients, and the Nakagami parameter (m) were computed for each image. For the in-vitro experiment, both K and S increased about 0.87±0.18 and 0.63±0.09, respectively; while m decreased about 0.90±0.20 with increasing blood velocity from 12 to 44 cm/s. In-vivo experimental results also showed that K, S, and m varied during a cycle. When the blood velocity varied from 5 to 15 cm/s during a cardiac cycle, K and S increased about 1.42±0.64 and 0.44±0.11, respectively; while m decreased about 0.97±0.26. The in-vivo results seemed to be consistent with the in-vitro results in the sense that K and S increased with blood velocity while m decreased with velocity. This study suggests that the statistical analysis of blood echogenicity can be useful for in-vivo hemorheology and blood characterization. [Work supported by NRF-2012-0005005 and NIPA-2012-H0401-12-2006.]
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0001-4966
,
1520-8524
Language:
English
Publisher:
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Publication Date:
2013
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1461063-2
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