Branching patterns of intramural coronary vessels determined by microangiography using synchrotron radiation

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 276, Issue 6 45-6, 1999, Pages

  Tanaka, Akira ^a   Mori, Hidezo ^a   Tanaka, Etsuro ^a   Mohammed, Minhaz Uddin ^a   Tanaka, Yutaka ^a   Sekka, Takafumi ^a   Ito, Kunihisa ^a   Shinozaki, Yoshiro ^a   Hyodo, Kazuyuki ^b   Ando, Masami ^b   Umetani, Keiji ^c   Tanioka, Kenkichi ^d   Kubota, Misao ^d   Abe, Sumihisa ^a   Handa, Shunnosuke ^a   Nakazawa, Hiroe ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary circulation; Ischemia; Regional blood flow; Self similarity; Vessel branching

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOG; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART MUSCLE; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCHROTRON;

EID: 18744420069     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.276.6.h2262     Document Type: Article

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