Mesostructures of the aortic valve

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 679-686

  Doehring, Todd C ^a   Kahelin, Michael ^a   Vesely, Ivan ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EMBEDDING; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SWINE;

ANIMALS; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; CORONARY VESSELS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SWINE;

EID: 26844492071     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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