In vivo MRI-based 3D mechanical stress-strain profiles of carotid plaques with juxtaluminal plaque haemorrhage: An exploratory study for the mechanism of subsequent cerebrovascular events

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 427-433

  Teng, Z ^a   Sadat, U ^a,b   Huang, Y ^a   Young, V E ^a   Graves, M J ^a   Lu, J ^c   Gillard, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid; Deformation; Haemorrhage; MRI; Rupture

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL MECHANICAL STRESS; CRITICAL MECHANICAL STRETCH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; JUXTALUMINAL HEMORRHAGE THROMBUS; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOGENESIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RECURRENCE; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 80052954001     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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