Assessment of possible thermal damage of tissue due to atherectomy by means of a mechanical debulking device

Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC2008

Volumn , Issue PART B, 2009, Pages 799-800

  Lovik, Ryan D ^a   Abraham, John P ^a   Sparrow, Eph M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bioheat transfer; Debulking; Orbital atherectomy; Peripheral artery disease; Plaque laden arteries; Thermal tissue damage

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; BIO-HEAT TRANSFER; COOLANT FLOW RATES; IN-VITRO; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE; POSTERIOR TIBIAL ARTERY; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMAL DAMAGE; THERMAL INJURIES; TISSUE DAMAGE;

ABERRATIONS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMAGE DETECTION; EXPERIMENTS; ORBITAL TRANSFER;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 77952591816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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