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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Imaging. 2022 Aug 5;93:128–134. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2022.08.003

Table 3.

Magnetic resonance imaging measured superficial femoral artery velocities at the proximal and distal imaging locations.

Proximal Location
Distal Location
Pooled Data (N=70) N Median (IQR) N Median (IQR) P-value

Average velocity, cm/s 70 26.8 (16.4, 37.1) 69 18.88 (11.1, 28.6) <0.001
Maximum velocity, cm/s 70 43.97 (20.4, 65.2) 69 34.9 (16.9, 51.7) <0.001
Minimum velocity, cm/s 70 4.13 (1.99, 9.18) 69 4.31 (2.47, 7.4) 1.00
Velocity pulsatility index (VPI) 70 1.65 (1.02, 1.83) 69 1.5 (0.74, 1.8) 0.015