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Original Article

Quantitative measurement of wall shear rate by pulsed Doppler ultrasound

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Pages 58-64 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

A 20 MHz: pulsed Doppler ultrasound system was used to obtain steady flow velocity profiles in cylindrical lubes. A deconvolution technique was emplyed to improue the spatial resolution and the corrected results were compared with Poiseuille's theory. Frequency domain windowing was used to suppress noise in the deconvolution procedure, using a method which reduced distortions at the window boundaries. Wall shear rate was calculated from the measured velocity profiles both before and after deconvolution, and compared with theory to quantify the accuracy of the technique. The results illustrate the significant improvement provided by deconvolution, with the average error in measured wall shear rate reducing from 16 to 12% after applying the technique. Some of the discrepancy is in part attributed to the method used to determine wall shear rate.

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