Describing the highly three dimensional right ventricle flow

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1790-1801

  Mangual, J O ^a   Domenichini, F ^a   Pedrizzetti, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular fluid dynamics; Fluid mechanics; Right ventricle; Ventricle flow residence time; Ventricular function; Vortex formation

Indexed keywords

DIRECT FLOW; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IMAGING; EJECTION FRACTION; FLOW RESIDENCE TIME; IMMERSED BOUNDARY; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; RESIDENCE TIME; RIGHT VENTRICLE; SPACE TIME DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TRANSIT TIME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTIONS; VORTEX FORMATION; VORTEX SPINNING; WEAKLY TURBULENT;

BLOOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUID MECHANICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ORIFICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENT FLOW; VISUALIZATION; VORTEX FLOW;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84864570174     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-012-0540-5     Document Type: Article

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