Wall pressure gradient in normal left coronary artery tree

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 455-464

  Giannoglou, George D ^a   Soulis, Johannes V ^b   Farmakis, Thomas M ^a   Giannakoulas, George A ^a   Parcharidis, George E ^a   Louridas, George E ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Blood flow; Left coronary artery tree; Wall pressure gradient

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SHEAR STRESS;

LEFT CORONARY ARTERY (LCA); NUMERICAL CODES; WALL PRESSURE GRADIENT (WPG); WALL SHEAR STRESS GRADIENT (WSSG);

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOMATERIAL; DISINFECTANT AGENT; GLASS; LATEX; POLITEF; POLYMER; SILICONE; SILVER;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER MODEL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 21244460213     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2004.12.015     Document Type: Article

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