Image-based models of cardiac structure in health and disease

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 489-506

  Vadakkumpadan, Fijoy ^a   Arevalo, Hermenegild ^a   Prass, Anton J ^b   Chen, Junjie ^c   Kickinger, Ferdinand ^d   Kohl, Peter ^e   Plank, Gernot ^b   Trayanova, Natalia ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CAE Software Solutions ^*  (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOG; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; RABBIT; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOGS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIUM; RABBITS;

EID: 78650118819     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.76     Document Type: Article

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