Computational Simulation of Therapeutic Parent Artery Occlusion to Treat Giant Vertebrobasilar Aneurysm

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-68

  Hassan, Tamer ^a,b   Ezura, Masayuki ^a   Timofeev, Eugene V ^b,c   Tominaga, Teiji ^a   Saito, Tsutomu ^b   Takahashi, Akira ^a   Takayama, Kazuyoshi ^b   Yoshimoto, Takashi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEURYSM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CASE REPORT; CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DYNAMICS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FLUID FLOW; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; SYSTOLE; THROMBOSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR ANEURYSM;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BALLOON OCCLUSION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 1642500839     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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