Table 3.

Descriptive statistics of flow and wall parameters for patients with normal femoral arteries and patients with wall thickening or femoral artery plaque at the location of 2D CINE PC imaging.

	peak mean systolic velocity [m/s]	flow [ml/cycle]	WSS [N/m2]	peak systolic WSS [N/m2]	OSI [%]
no wall abnormalities at site of PC-MRI (n=15)	0.34 ± 0.10	2.8 ± 1.1	0.83 ± 0.39	1.29 ± 0.55	23 ± 10
wall thickening (n=9)	0.31 ± 0.22	1.6 ± 1.6	0.73 ± 0.40	1.39 ± 0.77	17 ± 6
plaque (n=20)	0.46 ± 0.21	2.6 ± 1.2	0.67 ± 0.17	1.41 ± 0.55	19 ± 9
loose matrix (n=5)	0.55 ± 0.21	3.1 ± 1.3	0.69 ± 0.11	1.53 ± 0.48	20 ± 7
lipid rich (n=2)	0.50 ± 0.29	2.7 ± 0.6	0.68 ± 0.22	1.58 ± 0.82	15 ± 4
calcified (n=13)	0.42 ± 0.20	2.3 ± 1.3	0.67 ± 0.19	1.34 ± 0.57	19 ± 10