Model based investigation of retinal vessel tortuosity as a function of blood pressure: Preliminary results

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 6459-6462

  Patašius, Martynas ^a   Marozas, Vaidotas ^a   Lukoševičius, Arunas ^a   Jegelevičius, Darius ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT MONITORING;

CYLINDRICAL SEGMENTS; EYE FUNDUS BLOOD VESSELS; TORTUOSITY ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 57649207889     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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