Introduction: Arterial stiffness is an important predictor of cardiovascular risk. Several indices have been  introduced to estimate the arterial stiffness based on the changes in the brachial blood pressure. Since the  substitution  of  the  blood  pressure  changes  in  the  central  arteries  such  as  carotid  with  the  blood  pressure  changes in the brachial results in error in the blood...

This paper describes the design and construction of two ultrasonic Doppler transducers using Finite Element Analysis for blood flow measurement. These transducers were constructed using as sensing element, commercial 8 MHz PIC255 piezoceramic discs, EPO-TEK 301 and Rexolite 4422 as backing and matching layer materials respectively. The objective of this work was to design and construct two sing...

The value of the concomittant use of a real time frequency analyzer along with a continuous wave carotid Doppler scanner is demonstrated in this study of 118 cases. With a colour-coded Doppler scanner alone, internal carotid stenoses greater than 35% were diagnosed with a sensitivity of 95% and a specificity of 82%. With the addition of frequency analysis certain inherent problems with Doppler ...