The investigation of the relationship between carotid intima-media thickness and vascular compliance in patients with coronary artery disease

Biomedical Engineering - Applications, Basis and Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-42

  Huang, Chih Cheng ^a   Chen, Tainsong ^a   Chao, Ting Hsing ^b   Juan, Yao Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Compliance; Intima media thickness; Windkessel model

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DISEASES; ELASTICITY; PATIENT MONITORING;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASES (CAD); INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS (IMT);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTIMA; MALE; STROKE;

EID: 1542348494     PISSN: 10162372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4015/S1016237204000074     Document Type: Article

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