Computational analysis of flow and stress patterns in patient specific thoracic aortic aneurysm models

Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 133-159

  Borghi, Alessandro ^a   Wood, Nigel B ^a   Mohiaddin, Raad H ^b   Xu, Xiao Yun ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cane; Fibrinogen; Incompressibility; Luminal; Vortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888110213     PISSN: 22129391     EISSN: 22129413     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4552-0_6     Document Type: Chapter

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