Figure 3

Flow-area method. PWV results from a volunteer scan. A cross section of the aorta is shown (left), where the user marks the aorta boundary. The panel on the right shows the change in aortic cross sectional area versus total flow at different frames in the cardiac cycle. A line is fitted to the data during the initial slope of the curve at early systole, from which PWV is calculated. After systole, ROIs were drawn large to separate them from earlier points and avoid confounding the linear fit.