Blood Flow Imaging with Ultrafast DopplerJerome Baranger 1,2, Luc Mertens 1,2, Olivier Villemain 1,2,3
1Translational Medicine Department, The Hospital for Sick Children, PGCRL Research Institute, 2The Labatt Family Heart Centre, Department of Pediatric, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 3Medical Biophysics Department, University of Toronto
This protocol shows how to apply ultrafast ultrasound Doppler imaging to quantify blood flows. After a 1 s long acquisition, the experimenter has access to a movie of the full field of view with axial velocity values for each pixel every ≈0.3 ms (depending on the ultrasound time of flight).