Feasibility of estimating regional mechanical properties of cerebral aneurysms in vivo

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1689-1706

  Balocco, Simone ^a,b   Camara, Oscar ^a,b   Vivas, Elio ^b   Sola, Teresa ^b   Guimaraens, Leopoldo ^b   Gratama Van Andel, Hugo A F ^c   Majoie, Charles B ^d   Pozo, José María ^a,b   Bijnens, Bart H ^a,b   Frangi, Alejandro F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomechanical models; Cerebral aneurysms; Inverse problems; Patient specific estimation of material properties

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA MINING; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

AUTOMATIC CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; BIO-MECHANICAL MODELS; CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS; GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS; IMAGE SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTEGRATING INFORMATION; PATIENT SPECIFIC; REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 77950582897     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3355933     Document Type: Article

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