Layer-specific 3D residual deformations of human aortas with non-atherosclerotic intimal thickening

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 530-545

  Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,b   Sommer, Gerhard ^a   Auer, Martin ^b   Regitnig, Peter ^c   Ogden, Ray W ^d  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arterial layer separation; Human aorta; Residual deformation; Residual stress; Vascular heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; RESIDUAL STRESSES;

ARTERIAL LAYER SEPARATION; HUMAN AORTA; RESIDUAL DEFORMATION; VASCULAR HETEROGENEITY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 33947411432     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-006-9252-z     Document Type: Article

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