Preliminary intraobserver and interobserver variability in wall stress and rupture risk assessment of abdominal aortic aneurysms using a semiautomatic finite element model

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 326-330

  Teutelink, Arno ^a   Cancrinus, Ernst ^a   Van De Heuvel, Danyel ^a   Moll, Frans ^b   De Vries, Jean Paul ^a  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PEAK WALL RUPTURE RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VON MISES STRESS; WALL STRESS;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTOGRAPHY; AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856083946     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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