Impedance boundary conditions for the pulmonary vasculature including the effects of geometry, compliance, and respiration

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 862-870

  Clipp, Rachel B ^a,b   Steele, Brooke N ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Computational modeling; Pulmonary vasculature; Respiration effects

Indexed keywords

BEST-FIT MODELS; CARDIAC FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLOW WAVEFORMS; IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INLET PRESSURES; PRESSURE WAVEFORMS; PULMONARY VASCULATURE; RESISTANCE VESSELS; RESPIRATION EFFECTS; RMS ERRORS; SCALING FACTORS; STRATEGIC CHANGES; VASCULAR SYSTEMS; VESSEL GEOMETRIES;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GEOMETRY; IMPEDANCE; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LUNG; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG COMPLIANCE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LUNG; LUNG COMPLIANCE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY VEINS; RESPIRATION; SHEEP; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 65349180299     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2010133     Document Type: Article

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