Impact of flow rates in a cardiac cycle on correlations between advanced human carotid plaque progression and mechanical flow shear stress and plaque wall stress

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yang, Chun ^a,b   Canton, Gador ^c   Yuan, Chun ^c   Ferguson, Marina ^c   Hatsukami, Thomas S ^c   Tang, Dalin ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Life Science and Bioengineering Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIAC CYCLES; CAROTID PLAQUES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CORRELATION RATIO; DATA POINTS; FLOW SHEAR STRESS; IN-VIVO; MAXIMUM FLOW RATE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MINIMUM FLOW; MODEL CONSTRUCTION; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PLAQUE PROGRESSION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; WALL SHEAR STRESS; WALL STRESS; WALL THICKNESS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFINED FLOW; CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW RATE; SHEAR STRESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SHEAR FLOW;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 79960563229     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-10-61     Document Type: Article

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