Computational rupture prediction of AAAs: What needs to be done next?

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 226-229

  Doyle, Barry J ^a,b   Hoskins, Peter R ^b   McGloughlin, Timothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTERY WALL; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOTE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WALL STRESS;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 79955376593     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: 15451550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/10-3244C.1     Document Type: Note

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