Identification of atherosclerotic lesion-prone sites through patient-specific simulation of low-density lipoprotein accumulation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5242 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2008, Pages 774-781

  Olgac, Ufuk ^a   Kurtcuoglu, Vartan ^a   Saur, Stefan C ^a   Poulikakos, Dimos ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LIPOPROTEINS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SHEAR STRESS;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESIONS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERIES; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS; PATIENT SPECIFIC; PATIENT SPECIFIC MODEL; STRESS-DEPENDENT;

BLOOD;

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 79551688202     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85990-1_93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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