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Basic Principles and Physics of Duplex and Color Doppler Imaging

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Duplex and Color Doppler Imaging of the Venous System

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Doppler ultrasound has been used in medicine since the mid-1970s, mainly for the diagnosis of vascular disease like occlusion or stenosis (Keller et al. 1975; Fitzgerald et al. 1977; Weaver et al. 1980; Brown et al. 1982). The first systems developed were based on the continuous-wave (CW) spectral Doppler ultrasound technique with separate transmitter and receiver elements (Brody et al. 1974; Di Pietro et al. 1978). In 1983, pulsed-wave (PW) color Doppler imaging (CDI) systems were introduced clinically for color coding the detected blood flow in real-time (Atkinson et al. 1982). In the past, these early CDI systems were restricted to an evaluation of only a few well-defined medical indications in cardiac disease where the blood velocity is very high. A newer generation of CDI systems has allowed us, since 1986, to detect and display lower blood velocities occurring in peripheral arteries or veins (Kasai et al. 1985; Merritt et al. 1987; Klews 1987; Scoutt et al. 1990).

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Kollmann, C. (2004). Basic Principles and Physics of Duplex and Color Doppler Imaging. In: Mostbeck, G.H. (eds) Duplex and Color Doppler Imaging of the Venous System. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18589-2_1

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