Variability of arterial wall shear stress, its dependence on vessel diameter and implications for Murray's Law

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-48

  Friedman, Morton H ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteries; Murray's Law; Species effects; Variability; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LETTER; MEASUREMENT; MURRAY LAW; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISCOSITY;

ARTERIES; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSELS; CAROTID ARTERIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PULSATILE FLOW; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 60649100638     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2008.07.003     Document Type: Letter

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