Forward electrical transmission line model of the human arterial system

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 312-321

  John, Lester R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Electrical transmission line; Forward arterial model; Haemodynamics

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN ARTERIAL SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANALYTICAL ERROR; AORTA ROOT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC MODEL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PULSE WAVE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACIC AORTA;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ARTERIES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 2942738746     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02344705     Document Type: Article

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