Computerized morphometry of the pulmonary vasculature over a range of intravascular pressures

Anatomical Record

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 92-101

  Ohar, Jill A ^a,b   Waller, K S ^a   Williams, Tanya J ^a   Luke, Douglas A ^a   Demello, Daphne E ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted diagnosis; Pulmonary artery; Pulmonary circulation; Pulmonary hypertension; Vascular resistance; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RABBIT; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; BARIUM SULFATE; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PRESSURE; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; RABBITS; TISSUE FIXATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0031688162     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199809)252:1<92::AID-AR8>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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