Aortic pressure-diameter relationship assessed by intravascular ultrasound: Experimental validation in dogs

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 276, Issue 3 45-3, 1999, Pages

  Hardt, Stefan E ^a   Just, Armin ^a   Bekeredjian, Raffi ^a   Kübler, Wolfgang ^a   Kirchheim, Hartmut R ^a   Kuecherer, Helmut F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic compliance; Vascular ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; DOG; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032920697     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.3.h1078     Document Type: Article

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