Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in the human cranial subarachnoid space: An overlooked mediator of cerebral disease. I. Computational model

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 1195-1204

  Gupta, Sumeet ^a   Soellinger, Michaela ^b,c   Grzybowski, Deborah M ^d   Boesiger, Peter ^c   Biddiscombe, John ^e   Poulikakos, Dimos ^a   Kurtcuoglu, Vartan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Centro Svizzero Di Calcolo Scientifico   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cerebrospinal fluid; Intracranial pressure regulation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Porous media; Subarachnoid space

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; BRAIN; DISEASES; FLUIDS; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE REGULATION; RESONANCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; INTRA-CRANIAL PRESSURE; POROUS MEDIA; SUBARACHNOID SPACES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; ADULT; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKULL;

ADULT; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SKULL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

EID: 77955642553     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0033     Document Type: Article

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