The effect of lung orientation on functional imaging of blood flow

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6511, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Burrowes, Kelly S ^a   Tawhai, Merryn H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Flow heterogeneity; Image based; Mechanics; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; DISEASES; FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; FLOW HETEROGENEITY; PULMONARY PERFUSION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 35148856325     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.716040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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