Local critical stress correlates better than global maximum stress with plaque morphological features linked to atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability: An in vivo multi-patient study

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tang, Dalin ^a   Teng, Zhongzhao ^a   Canton, Gador ^b   Hatsukami, Thomas S ^b   Dong, Li ^b   Huang, Xueying ^a   Yuan, Chun ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAP THICKNESS; CAROTID PLAQUES; CRITICAL STRESS; GLOBAL MAXIMUM; IMAGE-BASED; IMAGE-BASED SCREENINGS; IN-VIVO; LIPID CORES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; MECHANICAL STRESS; MODEL CONSTRUCTION; MOONEY-RIVLIN MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; PARAMETER VALUES; PATIENT DATA; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PLAQUE MORPHOLOGY; PLAQUE RUPTURE; RUPTURE RISK; SEVERITY INDEX; STRESS INDICES; VESSEL WALLS; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

RISK ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; STATISTICS; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SHEAR STRENGTH; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 68949214467     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-8-15     Document Type: Article

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