The relationship between wall shear stress distributions and intimal thickening in the human abdominal aorta

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Bonert, Michael ^a,b   Leask, Richard L ^a,b,c   Butany, Jagdish ^d   Ethier, C Ross ^a,b   Myers, Jerry G ^a,b   Johnston, K Wayne ^b,d   Ojha, Matadial ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; TRACER;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; AUTOPSY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; INTIMA; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGING; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 3042654723     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-2-18     Document Type: Article

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