Colour Doppler imaging of popliteal artery and vein
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Longitudinal ultrasound image of the popliteal artery and vein with colour flow mapping. Blue colour indicates flow away from the transducer and red colour indicates flow towards the transducer. The light green quadrilateral is the colour Doppler sample volume. The vein appears larger than the artery in the two dimensional ultrasound image.
