A three-dimensional model for arterial tree representation, generated by constrained constructive optimization

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-38

  Karch, Rudolf ^a   Neumann, Friederike ^a   Neumann, Martin ^b   Schreiner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anatomic models; Arterial trees; Computer simulation; Constrained constructive optimization; Topology

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BLOOD VOLUME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONSTRAINED CONSTRUCTIVE OPTIMIZATION (CCO);

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

EID: 0032623656     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4825(98)00045-6     Document Type: Article

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