Comparison of in vitro velocity measurements in a scaled total cavopulmonary connection with computational predictions

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 810-822

  Khunatorn, Yottana ^a   Shandas, Robin ^b,d   DeGroff, Curt ^b   Mahalingam, Shankar ^c  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c University of California Riverside   (United States)

^d UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics modeling; Experimental fluid mechanics; Hemodynamics; Pediatrie cardiology

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEMODYNAMICS; PRESSURE DROP; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

TOTAL CAVOPULMONARY SURGICAL CONNECTION (TCPC);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; VALIDATION STUDY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART BYPASS, RIGHT; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0041765803     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.1584684     Document Type: Article

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