Staged Growth of Optimized Arterial Model Trees

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 495-511

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Constrained constructive optimization; Epicardial and endocardial differences; Heart; Mathematical model; Vascular growth model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTERY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CORONARY VESSELS; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0034180848     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.290     Document Type: Article

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