Carotid flow rates and flow division at the bifurcation in healthy volunteers

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 691-697

  Marshall, Ian ^a   Papathanasopoulou, Panorea ^a   Wartolowska, Karolina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Blood flow; Carotid; Division; Ratio

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BLOOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID; CAROTID ARTERY; DIVISION; FLOW WAVEFORMS; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; RATIO; REGIONS OF INTEREST; TIME-AVERAGED;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; HEART CYCLE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTEER; WAVEFORM;

EID: 3142620954     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/25/3/009     Document Type: Article

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