Factors influencing blood flow patterns in the human right coronary artery

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 109-120

  Myers, J G ^a   Moore, J A ^a   Ojha, M ^a   Johnston, K W ^a   Ethier, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atherogenesis; Hemodynamics; Numerical modeling; Right coronary artery; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RISKS;

ATHEROGENESIS; GEOMETRIC RISK FACTORS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0034744641     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.1349703     Document Type: Article

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