Local Arterial Stiffness Assessment: Comparison of Pulse Wave Velocity Assessed by Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging versus the Bramwell-Hill Equation

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ² Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ³ Institute Biomedical Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁴ Physics for Medicine Paris, INSERM U1273, ESPCI Paris, CNRS UMR 8063, PSL Research University, Paris, France.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: olivier.villemain@sickkids.ca.