Co-registration of the distribution of wall shear stress and 140 complex plaques of the aorta

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1156-1162

  Markl, Michael ^a,b   Brendecke, Stefanie M ^c   Simon, Jan ^c   Barker, Alex J ^a,b   Weiller, Cornelius ^c   Harloff, Andreas ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D flow MRI; Aorta; Atherosclerosis; Plaque; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

4D FLOW MRI; ADULT; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA FLOW; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSCILLATORY SHEAR INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEAR STRESS; STROKE PATIENT; THORACIC AORTA;

EID: 84880728294     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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