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Volumetric Flow Estimation in a Coronary Artery Phantom Using High-Frame-Rate Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound, Speckle Decorrelation, and Doppler Flow Direction Detection

机译:Volumetric Flow Estimation in a Coronary Artery Phantom Using High-Frame-Rate Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound, Speckle Decorrelation, and Doppler Flow Direction Detection

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The coronary flow reserve (CFR), relating to the volumetric flow rate, is an effective functional parameter to assess the stenosis in the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery. We have recently proposed to use high-frame-rate (HFR) contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) to estimate the volumetric flow rate using ultrasound (US) speckle decorrelation (SDC) without any assumptions about the velocity profile. However, this method still has challenges in imaging deep and small vessels, such as LAD. In this study, we proposed to address the challenges and demonstrate the feasibility of volumetric flow rate measurement in a coronary mimicking phantom with pulsatile flow using a 1-D array cardiac probe, vector Doppler, and an optimal probe rotation/tilting for flow direction detection. Both simulations and in vitro experiments were conducted to validate the proposed method. It is shown that in-plane velocities estimated by vector Doppler under a 10° probe tilting resulted in smaller percentage error (+5.2) in flow rate estimates than that in US imaging velocimetry (?20.2) although their relative standard deviations were very close, being 2.6 and 2.8 ml/min, respectively. The flow rate estimated by SDC without direction detection had an error higher than 70. A 10° tilting of the probe had the best results in flow rate estimation compared to the 5° or 15° tilting. Realistic global motions in the LAD increased the flow rate estimation error from 5.2 to 14.2. It is concluded that it is feasible to measure the volumetric flow rate in a coronary artery flow phantom with a conventional cardiac probe, using HFR acquisition, Doppler, and SDC analysis. Potentially, this technique could also be applied to investigate the volumetric flow rate in other small vessels similar to the LAD.

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