Non-invasive fractional flow reserve: Scientific basis, methods and perspectives

EuroIntervention

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 511-519

  Serruys, Patrick W ^a   Girasis, Chrysafios ^a   Papadopoulou, Stella Lida ^a   Onuma, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE;

ALGORITHM; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; EPICARDIUM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; GUIDE WIRE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MICROCIRCULATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84872080025     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV8I4A79     Document Type: Article

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