Impact of calcifications on patient-specific wall stress analysis of abdominal aortic aneurysms

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 511-521

  Maier, A ^a   Gee, M W ^a   Reeps, C ^a   Eckstein, H H ^a   Wall, W A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Calcification; Finite element method; Patient specific modeling; Wall stress

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; CALCIFICATION; FINITE ELEMENT; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING; WALL STRESS;

BIOMINERALIZATION; BLOOD VESSELS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESS ANALYSIS;

BONE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; HUMAN; INTIMA; PATHOLOGY;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 77956740518     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16822978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-010-0191-0     Document Type: Article

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