Supraceliac and Infrarenal Aortic Flow in Patients with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Mean Flows, Waveforms, and Allometric Scaling Relationships

Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-51

  Les, Andrea S ^a   Yeung, Janice J ^b   Schultz, Geoffrey M ^b   Herfkens, Robert J ^c   Dalman, Ronald L ^b   Taylor, Charles A ^a,d  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biphasic waveform; Body surface area (BSA); Linear regression; Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC MRI); Weight

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; ALLOMETRIC SCALING; AORTIC FLOW; BIPHASIC; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY SURFACE AREA (BSA); CARDIAC CYCLES; FLOW INFORMATIONS; FOURIER; HEMODYNAMIC FORCES; IN-SILICO; IN-VITRO; LOG-LOG PLOTS; MEAN FLOW; MR SCANNERS; OLDER ADULTS; PHASE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHASE-CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (PC-MRI); VOLUMETRIC FLOW; WAVE FORMS; WEIGHT;

BLOOD VESSELS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION; RESONANCE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACCURACY; ADULT; ALLOMETRY; AORTA; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRY; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; INFRARENAL AORTA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; SUPRACELIAC AORTA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 79953174974     PISSN: 1869408X     EISSN: 18694098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13239-010-0004-8     Document Type: Article

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