Hemodynamic variations due to spiral blood flow through four patient-specific bifurcated stent graft configurations for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 179-196

  Stefanov, Florian ^a   McGloughlin, Tim ^b   Delassus, Patrick ^a   Morris, Liam ^a  

^a Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysms; Drag force; Human aorta; Spiral flow; Stent graft configurations; Stent graft thrombus

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; DRAG FORCES; HUMAN AORTA; SPIRAL FLOW; STENT GRAFTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DRAG; GRAFTS; HEMODYNAMICS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STENT; THORACIC AORTA;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873422177     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2525     Document Type: Article

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