The arterial windkessel

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-141

  Westerhof, Nico ^a   Lankhaar, Jan Willem ^a   Westerhof, Berend E ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BMEYE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arterial compliance; Characteristic impedance; Input impedance; Pressure flow relation

Indexed keywords

AORTIC PRESSURES; ARTERIAL COMPLIANCE; ARTERIAL SYSTEMS; CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; DISTRIBUTED PHENOMENON; HYDRAULIC LOADS; INPUT IMPEDANCE; ISOLATED HEARTS; LUMPED MODELS; WINDKESSEL; WINDKESSEL MODELS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

AORTA; ARTERIES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 60649099988     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-008-0359-2     Document Type: Review

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