论文部分内容阅读
Background,Motivation and Objective Pulse wave velocity(PWV),a measurement of arterial stiffness,is predictive of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality.Pulse wave imaging(PWI) is an ultrasoundbased technique aiming at measuring the local PWV within the image field-of-view(Luo et al,IEEE TUFFC 2012;Huang et al,IEEE TUFFC 2014).