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Assessment of the effect of vessel curvature on Doppler measurements in steady flow
Authors:Balbis S  Guiot C  Roatta S  Arina R  Todros T
Institution:Department of Neuroscience, University of Torino, Torino, Italy; INFM, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
Abstract:Blood vessel curvature is responsible for the appearance of nonaxial velocity components and for minor changes in the pattern of the axial flow. All the velocity components are expected to contribute to the Doppler signal produced by the ultrasound (US) backscattered by the insonated blood cells, the axial velocity, contributing to the actual volumetric blood flow, and the transverse velocity, causing the recirculating vortices. A detailed, separate analysis of the velocity components is, therefore, mandatory to quantify how vessel curvature can affect results and clinical diagnosis. Both experimental in vitro measures and numerical simulations were performed on a curved tube and the Doppler power spectra so obtained were compared. The satisfactorily agreement of the above spectra shows that the nonaxial velocity components are easily detectable with clinical equipment and that their amplitude, as expected, is not negligible and can bias Doppler measurements and resulting clinical diagnosis.
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