Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity Evaluation in Normals and Heart Failure Patients

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aging aorta aortic artery ascending assessed axial axis biomedical blood breath brook candy cane cardiac cardiology cardiovascular chambers chronic cine circulatory clinical compliance congestive consent contrast controls correlated correlation covered cross curve curves dependency descending determine determined diastolic differs disease distance easily either eject elderly encoded engineering evaluated evaluation exclude failure fitting flow function gated gave halves healthy heart hold hospital hypertension hypothesize index informed linear listed male markedly mass maximal measured muscle often onset panel pathology patients plot plots population prescribed pressure process pulmonary pulse pump reduced reduction referred reflecting regression relationship relationships remodeling resolution respectively scanner scatter screened sections short slope spatial steeper stiff stiffens stiffness stony stronger surrogate systolic table taken thoracic transit traveled traveling upper varying velocity ventricular view views volunteers wave yang