Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Vol 6, Issue 10 597-599, Copyright © 1987 by American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Relationships of five Doppler measures with flow in an in vitro model and clinical findings in newborn infants

R. D. Miles, J. A. Menke, M. Bashiru and J. A. Colliver
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine, Carbondale.

This report compares six Doppler ultrasound measures of blood flow: Pourcelot's pulsatility index, Gosling's pulsatility index, area under the curve, systolic amplitude, diastolic amplitude, and mean amplitude. Recordings from an in vitro arterial model and from the anterior cerebral arteries in 33 newborn infants with asphyxia, intraventricular hemorrhage, or normal state were analyzed. In the model, all measures had excellent correlation with flow. Neonates were correctly classified according to diagnosis by the Doppler measures as follows: Pourcelot's pulsatility index (100%), Gosling's pulsatility index (97%), diastolic amplitude (94%), mean amplitude (76%), area under the curve (70%), and systolic amplitude (58%). The best accuracy was obtained with the pulsatility indices.

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