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Ultrasonic Estimation of Mechanical Properties of Pulmonary Arterial Wall under Normoxic and Hypoxic Conditions

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Author(s)

Kendall Waters, O M. Mukdadi

Abstract

Secondary pediatric pulmonary hypertension is a disease that could benefit from improved ultrasonic diagnostic techniques. We perform high-frequency in vitro ultrasound measurements (25 MHz to 100 MHz) on fresh and fixed pulmonary arterial walls excised from normoxic and hypoxic Long-Evans rat models. Estimates of the elastic stiffness coefficients are determined from measurements of the speed of sound. Preliminary results indicate that hypoxia leads to up to a 20 % increase in stiffening of the pulmonary arterial wall.
Conference Dates
July 25-30, 2004
Conference Location
Golden, CO
Conference Title
REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN QUANTITATIVE NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION
Pub Type
Conferences

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Keywords

acoustic microscopy, elastic stiffness, hypertension, pulmonary artery, tissue characterization, transversely isotropic
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Citation

Waters, K. and Mukdadi, O. (2005), Ultrasonic Estimation of Mechanical Properties of Pulmonary Arterial Wall under Normoxic and Hypoxic Conditions, REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN QUANTITATIVE NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION, Golden, CO, [online], https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1916853 (Accessed April 26, 2024)

Created April 9, 2005, Updated January 27, 2020