Geometric risk factors for atherosclerosis in the aortic bifurcation: A digitized angiography study

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 481-488

  Smedby, Örjan ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Angiography; Aorta; Arterial geometry; Atherosclerosis; Computerized image processing; Flow separation; Shear

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SHEAR FLOW;

AORTA; AORTIC BIFURCATION; ARTERIAL GEOMETRY; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; EDGE ROUGHNESS; FLOW SEPARATION; GEOMETRIC RISK FACTORS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FLOW KINETICS; GEOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0030198667     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02648110     Document Type: Article

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