A combined FEM/genetic algorithm for vascular soft tissue elasticity estimation

Cardiovascular Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 93-102

  Khalil, Ahmad S ^a,b   Bouma, Brett E ^c   Kaazempur Mofrad, Mohammad R ^a  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Elasticity reconstruction; FEM; Genetic algorithm; Optical coherence tomography; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE; STRESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33751040927     PISSN: 15678822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10558-006-9013-5     Document Type: Article

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