[Color Doppler sonography: non-invasive potential for morphologic and functional vascular diagnosis].

A linear array colour Doppler sonographic method was used experimentally on a vessel phantom in order to determine flow velocity, and the results were compared with DSA. Both the Doppler and the DSA method showed very good agreement with true velocities (r greater than 0.97). The Doppler method underestimated flow velocity. Early clinical results indicate that colour Doppler sonography is able, at the same time, to demonstrate morphology and function (direction flow and flow velocity) of significant vascular abnormalities by a non-invasive method.