TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of the Coanda effect on color doppler jet area and color encoding
T2 - In vitro studies using color doppler flow mapping
AU - Chao, Kung
AU - Moises, Valdir A.
AU - Shandas, Robin
AU - Elkadi, Taher
AU - Sahn, David J.
AU - Weintraub, Robert
PY - 1992/1
Y1 - 1992/1
N2 - We studied surface adherence and its effects on color Doppler jet areas and color encoding in an in vitro model with a noncompliant receiving chamber into which a steady flow jet was directed parallel to either a straight or a curved surface adjacent to and 4 mm away from the inflow orifice (1.50 mm2) with the control condition being a free jet matched for flow rates and driving pressures. Jets were imaged perpendicular to the plane of the surface, the plane in which most clinical images of jet-surface interactions are obtained. Ten different flow rates ranging from 0.13 to 0.30 l/min were used. Surface-adherent jet areas were smaller than control jets for every driving pressure-volume combination (paired t test, p<0.01). Computer analysis of color Doppler images showed more green and blue (reverse flow) pixels on the surface side of the adherent jets than the control jets (p<0.05), suggesting that viscous energy loss and flow deceleration and reversal play a role in the jet-surface interaction. Analysis of variance demonstrated that linear regression slopes of flow rate versus jet area for surface jets were lower (slopes, 11-21 cm2/l/min; r=0.95-0.97) than those for the control (slope, 33 cm2/l/min; r=0.97) (p<0.0001). Surface adherence (Coanda effect) influences jet size and color encoding, causing smaller color Doppler jet areas and greater variance and reverse velocity encoding.
AB - We studied surface adherence and its effects on color Doppler jet areas and color encoding in an in vitro model with a noncompliant receiving chamber into which a steady flow jet was directed parallel to either a straight or a curved surface adjacent to and 4 mm away from the inflow orifice (1.50 mm2) with the control condition being a free jet matched for flow rates and driving pressures. Jets were imaged perpendicular to the plane of the surface, the plane in which most clinical images of jet-surface interactions are obtained. Ten different flow rates ranging from 0.13 to 0.30 l/min were used. Surface-adherent jet areas were smaller than control jets for every driving pressure-volume combination (paired t test, p<0.01). Computer analysis of color Doppler images showed more green and blue (reverse flow) pixels on the surface side of the adherent jets than the control jets (p<0.05), suggesting that viscous energy loss and flow deceleration and reversal play a role in the jet-surface interaction. Analysis of variance demonstrated that linear regression slopes of flow rate versus jet area for surface jets were lower (slopes, 11-21 cm2/l/min; r=0.95-0.97) than those for the control (slope, 33 cm2/l/min; r=0.97) (p<0.0001). Surface adherence (Coanda effect) influences jet size and color encoding, causing smaller color Doppler jet areas and greater variance and reverse velocity encoding.
KW - Doppler echocardiography
KW - Surface-adherent jets
KW - Valvular regurgitation
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U2 - 10.1161/01.CIR.85.1.333
DO - 10.1161/01.CIR.85.1.333
M3 - Article
C2 - 1728465
AN - SCOPUS:0026575678
SN - 0009-7322
VL - 85
SP - 333
EP - 341
JO - Circulation
JF - Circulation
IS - 1
ER -