title: Observing curved flow using RUFIS.
abstract: The rotating ultra-fast imaging sequence (RUFIS) is used to image spins flowing through the curved portion of a 180 degrees U-tube with a circular cross section and a ratio of inner diameter to curvature diameter of 0.41. A velocity-encoding preparation sequence is used with RUFIS to measure quantitatively the axial velocity distribution for spins under steady-flow conditions. The resulting velocity contours confirm that higher velocity spins migrate toward the outer wall of the curve as the Dean number is increased.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Gach
authors.forename: I J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Lowe
mesh_terms: D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D018056:Hemorheology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging