Background, Motivation and Objective The peak blood velocity is a parameter of high medical interest used, for example, in the determination of carotid stenosis grade. The standard approach, which typically exploits the maximum frequency detectable in the Doppler spectrum, is prone to two main sources of errors: the ambiguity of the Doppler angle and the spectral broadening. Recently a novel method (doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2798) was introduced that, based on a mathematical model, is unaffected by the spectral broadening problem and automatically corrects for the angle through a vector Doppler approach. The method directly measures the max velocity component in a large sample volume that includes all the vessel section. The method offered good results when verified in-vitro in straight tubes, but tests in a more realistic configuration are necessary for an accurate validation.