The fractal nature of myocardial blood flow emerges from a whole-organ model of arterial network

Journal of Vascular Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 282-296

  Beard, Daniel A ^a   Bassingthwaighte, James B ^a,b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial arteriolar network; Autocorrelation; Capillary tissue exchange; Coronary blood vessels; Fractal dimension; Microvasculature; Power law washout; Regional blood flows in heart; Spatial distribution; Vasoregulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROVASCULATURE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

EID: 0033798526     PISSN: 10181172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000025742     Document Type: Article

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