Numerical study of blood flow in an anatomically realistic aorto-iliac bifurcation generated from MRI data

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 565-576

  Long, Q ^a   Xu, X Y ^a   Bourne, M ^b   Griffith, T M ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aorto iliac bifurcation; Computational fluid dynamics; Magnetic resonance imaging; Non planarity; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW PATTERNS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS;

AORTO-ILIAC BIFURCATION; DYNAMIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NONPLANAR GEOMETRY; PLANARITY; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; REGION OF INTEREST; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); WALL SHEAR STRESS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ADULT; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SHEAR STRESS;

EID: 0034108742     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(200004)43:4<565::AID-MRM11>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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