ARTreat project: Three-dimensional numerical simulation of plaque formation and development in the arteries

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 272-278

  Filipovic, Nenad ^a   Rosic, Mirko ^a   Tanaskovic, Irena ^a   Milosevic, Zarko ^b   Nikolic, Dalibor ^b   Zdravkovic, Nebojsa ^a   Peulic, Aleksandar ^a   Kojic, Milos R ^b,c,d   Fotiadis, Dimitris I ^e   Parodi, Oberdan ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b Bioengineering Research and Development Center   (Serbia)

^c HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^f INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; low density lipoprotein (LDL); plaque; wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; ANIMAL MODEL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL WALLS; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; HISTOLOGICAL DATA; INFLAMMATORY PROCESS; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS; PLAQUE; PROGRESSIVE DISEASE; REACTION DIFFUSION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

BLOOD VESSELS; DISEASES; HEALTH CARE; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RABBITS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84858113550     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2168418     Document Type: Article

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