A viscoelastic model of the brain parenchyma with pulsatile ventricular pressure

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 687-698

  Sivaloganathan, S ^a   Stastna, M ^a   Tenti, G ^a   Drake, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; BRAIN; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PULSATILE FLOW; TISSUE;

HOOKE'S LAW; HYDROCEPHALUS; KELVIN-VOIGT MODEL; LINEAR VISCOELASTICITY THEORY;

VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 18144369291     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2004.04.086     Document Type: Article

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