Diameter asymmetry of porcine coronary arterial trees: Structural and functional implications

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Kaimovitz, Benjamin ^a   Huo, Yunlong ^b   Lanir, Yoram ^a   Kassab, Ghassan S ^b,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis   (United States)

Author keywords

Area expansion ratio; Asymmetry ratio matrix; Bifurcation asymmetry; Coronary network; Diameter defined Strahler ordering

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; HEMODYNAMICS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CORONARY VESSELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; SWINE;

EID: 39149097820     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00818.2007     Document Type: Article

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