Regional blood flow analysis and its relationship with arterial branch lengths and lumen volume in the coronary arterial tree

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1495-1503

  Molloi, Sabee ^a   Wong, Jerry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

ARTERIAL BRANCH LENGTHS; ARTERIAL TREE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE;

DISEASES;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SWINE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SWINE; VASCULAR CAPACITANCE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 34247182036     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/5/018     Document Type: Article

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