Modeling stented coronary arteries: Where we are, where to go

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1428-1444

  Morlacchi, Stefano ^a,b   Migliavacca, Francesco ^a  

^a Lab of Biol Structure Mechanics   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Coronary imaging; Finite element method; Image based reconstructions; Stent

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL FEATURES; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CORONARY IMAGING; IMAGE-BASED; MODELING CAPABILITIES; STENT;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODELS;

STENTS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; STENT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STENTS;

EID: 84879416027     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-012-0681-6     Document Type: Review

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