Comparing microsphere deposition and flow modeling in 3D vascular trees

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Marxen, M ^a,b   Sled, J G ^a,c   Yu, L X ^c   Paget, C ^b   Henkelman, R M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Casting; Microcomputed tomography; Perfusion heterogeneity; Rat kidney; Three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; KIDNEY PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERFUSION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RENAL CIRCULATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33751194438     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00146.2006     Document Type: Article

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