Artery buckling: New phenotypes, models, and applications

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1399-1410

  Han, Hai Chao ^a,b   Chesnutt, Jennifer K W ^a,c   Garcia, Justin R ^b   Liu, Qin ^a   Wen, Qi ^d  

^a The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d Shaanxi Province People's Second Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Arteries; Bent buckling; Blood flow; Blood vessels; Collapsible tube; Folding; Instability; Kinking; Twist buckling; Veins

Indexed keywords

ARTERIES; BENT BUCKLING; BLOOD FLOW; FOLDING; KINKING; VEINS;

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; COLLAPSIBLE TUBES; HEMODYNAMICS; PLASMA STABILITY; TISSUE;

BUCKLING;

ANIMAL; ARTERY; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; VEIN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VEINS;

EID: 84879417091     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-012-0707-0     Document Type: Review

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