Impact of plaque haemorrhage and its age on structural stresses in atherosclerotic plaques of patients with carotid artery disease: An MR imaging-based finite element simulation study

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 397-402

  Sadat, Umar ^a   Teng, Zhongzhao ^a   Young, Victoria E ^a   Zhu, Chengcheng ^a   Tang, Tjun Y ^a   Graves, Martin J ^a   Gillard, Jonathan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Biomechanical stress; Finite element analysis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Plaque Haemorrhage; Stroke; Transient Ischaemic attacks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLAQUE HEMORRHAGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BIOMECHANICS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGLAND; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROGNOSIS; RUPTURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 79958740749     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-010-9679-z     Document Type: Article

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