Revealing the mechanisms underlying embolic stroke using computational modelling

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 7153-7166

  Chung, Emma M L ^a,d   Hague, James P ^b   Evans, David H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTERIAL BLOCKAGES; COMPUTATIONAL FORECASTING; EMBOLIC STROKES; FOCAL PERSISTENT INJURIES;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STROKE;

EID: 36349016065     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/23/025     Document Type: Article

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