Perfusion territories subtended by penetrating coronary arteries increase in size and decrease in number toward the subendocardium

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 306, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  van Horssen, P ^a   van den Wijngaard, J P H M ^a   Brandt, M J ^a   Hoefer, I E ^b   Spaan, J A E ^a   Siebes, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Imaging cryomicrotome; Intramural coronary arteries; Multiscale and multiphysics modeling; Transmural vascular vessel density; Vascular scaling laws

Indexed keywords

IMAGING CRYOMICROTOME; INTRAMURAL CORONARY ARTERIES; MULTISCALE AND MULTIPHYSICS MODELING; TRANSMURAL VASCULAR VESSEL DENSITY; VASCULAR SCALING LAWS;

ANIMALS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DOGS; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 84894097763     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00584.2013     Document Type: Article

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