In vitro angioplasty of atherosclerotic human femoral arteries: Analysis of the geometrical changes in the individual tissues using mri and image processing

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1276-1287

  Auer, Martin ^a   Stollberger, Rudolf ^a   Regitnig, Peter ^b   Ebner, Franz ^b   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Atherosclerotic plaque; Balloon angioplasty; Magnetic resonance imaging; Model based segmentation

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; AREA-CHANGES; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY; COMPUTERIZED METHODS; FEMORAL ARTERY; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; GEOMETRICAL CHANGES; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LIPID POOLS; MECHANICAL INDEXES; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PLAQUE MORPHOLOGY; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; STRESS EVOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) GEOMETRY; TISSUE COMPONENTS; TISSUE GEOMETRY; VESSEL SEGMENTS;

BALLOONS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSELS; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; STRESSES; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANGIOPLASTY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 77952009689     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-9954-0     Document Type: Article

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