Feasibility of aortic pulse pressure and pressure wave velocity MRI measurement in young adults

To investigate the feasibility of assessing, noninvasively, aortic pulse pressure (APP) and pulse wave velocity (PWV) in the ascending aorta of young adults by means of velocity‐encoded magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.

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