Flow patterns and wall shear stress distributions at atherosclerotic-prone sites in a human left coronary artery - An exploration using combined methods of CT and computational fluid dynamics

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 V, Issue , 2004, Pages 3789-3791

  Jin, Suo ^a   Yang, Yan ^a   Oshinski, John ^a,b   Tannenbaum, Allen ^a   Gruden, James ^b   Giddens, Don ^a  

^a Emory University   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; Coronary artery; CT; WSS

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CORONARY ARTERY; SYSTOLIC PHASES; WALL SHEAR STRESSES (WSS);

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 11144297284     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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