Various issues relating to computational fluid dynamics simulations of carotid bifurcation flow based on models reconstructed from three-dimensional ultrasound images

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Volumn 217, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 393-403

  Augst, A D ^a   Barratt, D C ^a   Hughes, A D ^a   McG Thom, S A ^a   Xu, X Y ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Computational fluid dynamics; Haemodynamics; Image processing; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DYNAMICS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ULTRASONICS;

CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

HEMODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERIES; HAEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; OUTFLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142054913     PISSN: 09544119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/095441103770802568     Document Type: Article

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