A comparison of quantitative measures of arterial tortuosity using sine wave simulations and 3D wire models

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2593-2599

  Eze, C U ^a   Gupta, R ^a   Newman, D L ^a,b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANEURYSM; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTERIES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0033795043     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/9/312     Document Type: Article

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