Modeling plaque fissuring and dissection during balloon angioplasty intervention

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 711-723

  Gasser, T Christian ^a   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Artery; Atherosclerotic plaque; Balloon angioplasty; Cohesive zone model; Dissection; FEM; Plaque fissuring

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY; COHESIVE ZONE MODEL; PLAQUE FISSURING;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; EVALUATION; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 34247268669     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-007-9258-1     Document Type: Article

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