peak velocity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpeakandvelocity
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peak
noun[C]
uk/piːk/us/piːk/
the highest, strongest, or best point, value, or level ...
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velocity
noun[C or U]
uk/vəˈlɒs.ə.ti/us/vəˈlɑː.sə.t̬i/
the speed at which an object ...
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Late atrialpeakvelocityremained unchanged.
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The fast phases produced in response to cervical stimuli were estimated by measuring theirpeakvelocity and amplitude, in accordance with the classical relation between these two parameters (main sequence).
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Figure 1 shows the derived values for systolic pulmonary arterial pressure calculated from thepeakvelocity of the regurgitant flow in comparison to systemic systolic blood pressure.
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A greater early to latepeakvelocityratio is thought to correlate with increasing ventricular compliance in the adult,5'6 but is also influenced by conditions of loading.
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We measured the anatomical size and peakflowvelocities in the main pulmonary artery and left and right branches, thepeakvelocityin the right ventricular outflow tract, and the bifurcation angle.
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Since the onset of motion was significantly delayed on this test and the time window narrow, thepeakvelocitymay not have been achieved.
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The flow velocity integral is defined as the area under the instantaneouspeakvelocitycurve of one cardiac cycle.
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This is approximately one-third thepeakvelocityobserved in aluminum, a value roughly consistent with the difference in material density.
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This could be a cause of overestimation of pressure gradients frompeakvelocitydata, a possibility which requires further investigation.
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The recordings of the highestpeakvelocitywere selected for deriving the mean and maximal instantaneous gradients and averaged from 3 to 5 waveforms.
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Movements as a whole were of lower amplitude, with a lowerpeakvelocity, and had longer movement times in each slicing cycle relative to controls.
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The systolicpeakvelocityis 50-80 cm/s at 20 weeks gestation and 60-90 cm/s at 40 weeks.
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Our dimensionless values ofpeakvelocityfluctuations are high compared to mixinglayer experiments.
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Of these, seven had continuous flow while one had high velocity systolic flow with apeakvelocityof greater than 3 m/sec.
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A localized velocity peak has implications for interpretation ofpeakvelocity.
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Changes inpeakvelocity, to assess respiratory pressure variation imposed on the fetal lungs, is a promising but largely unexplored technique.
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Nonetheless, it appears that the apparent observedpeakvelocity, 70 m 0s, was close.
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For the thermal ions we found values of about 20 and 6 km s-1 for thepeakvelocityin the longitudinal and radial directions, respectively.
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