Tissue pulsatility imaging of cerebral vasoreactivity during hyperventilation.
Ultrasound Med Biol
; 34(8): 1200-8, 2008 Aug.
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| ID: mdl-18336991
ABSTRACT
Tissue pulsatility imaging (TPI) is an ultrasonic technique that is being developed at the University of Washington to measure tissue displacement or strain as a result of blood flow over the cardiac and respiratory cycles. This technique is based in principle on plethysmography, an older nonultrasound technology for measuring expansion of a whole limb or body part due to perfusion. TPI adapts tissue Doppler signal processing methods to measure the "plethysmographic" signal from hundreds or thousands of sample volumes in an ultrasound image plane. This paper presents a feasibility study to determine if TPI can be used to assess cerebral vasoreactivity. Ultrasound data were collected transcranially through the temporal acoustic window from four subjects before, during and after voluntary hyperventilation. In each subject, decreases in tissue pulsatility during hyperventilation were observed that were statistically correlated with the subject's end-tidal CO2 measurements. (
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01-internacional
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Assunto principal:
Circulação Cerebrovascular
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Ultrassonografia Doppler Transcraniana
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Hiperventilação
Limite:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2008
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Article