Correlation between severity of sleep apnea and upper airway morphology based on advanced anatomical and functional imaging

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2207-2213

  Vos, W ^a,b   De Backer, J ^a,b   Devolder, A ^a   Vanderveken, O ^a   Verhulst, S ^a   Salgado, R ^a   Germonpre, P ^a   Partoens, B ^b   Wuyts, F ^b   Parizel, P ^a   De Backer, W ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; CFD; OSAHS; Upper airway

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX (AHI); BODY MASS INDEX (BMI); OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA/HYPOPNEA SYNDROME (OSAHS);

SLEEP RESEARCH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LARYNX; MALE; PHARYNX; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250801509     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.10.024     Document Type: Article

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