Patient-based abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture risk prediction with fluid structure interaction modeling

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3323-3337

  Xenos, Michalis ^a   Rambhia, Suraj H ^a   Alemu, Yared ^a   Einav, Shmuel ^a   Labropoulos, Nicos ^c   Tassiopoulos, Apostolos ^c   Ricotta, John J ^b,c   Bluestein, Danny ^a  

^a St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysmal strength; Fluid structure interaction; Reconstruction of patient based geometry; Rupture potential index; Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; ANEURYSMAL STRENGTH; CT SCAN; FLUID-STRUCTURES; RECONSTRUCTION OF PATIENT BASED GEOMETRY; RUPTURE LOCATION; RUPTURE POTENTIAL INDEX; RUPTURE RISK; RUPTURED ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS;

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; FLUIDS; RISK PERCEPTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78149280922     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-0094-3     Document Type: Article

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