Effect of posture change on the geometric features of the healthy carotid bifurcation

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 148-154

  Aristokleous, Nicolas ^a   Seimenis, Ioannis ^b   Papaharilaou, Yannis ^c   Georgiou, Georgios C ^d   Brott, Brigitta C ^e   Eracleous, Eleni ^b   Anayiotos, Andreas S ^a,e  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b Medical Diagnostic Center Ayios Therissos   (Cyprus)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid bifurcation; image based CFD; medical imaging; posture changes

Indexed keywords

AREA RATIOS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID BIFURCATION; DIAMETER RATIO; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERIES; GEOMETRIC CHANGES; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; HEAD POSTURE; HEAD ROTATION; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; IMAGE-BASED CFD; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MRI IMAGE; OSCILLATING WALLS; PARTICLE RESIDENCE TIME; PLANARITY; POSTURE CHANGES; VARIABLE CURVATURE; VIRTUAL MODELS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY POSTURE; CAROTID ARTERY; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SUPINE POSITION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERIES; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NECK; PRONE POSITION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 78651298949     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2091417     Document Type: Article

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