Patient-specific coronary stenoses can be modeled using a combination of OCT and flow velocities to accurately predict hyperemic pressure gradients

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1902-1913

  Kousera, C A ^a   Nijjer, S ^a   Torii, R ^b   Petraco, R ^a   Sen, S ^a   Foin, N ^a   Hughes, A D ^a,b   Francis, D P P ^a   Xu, X Y ^a   Davies, J E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiographic imaging; coronary arteries; finite element modeling; optical coherence tomography (OCT)

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CORONARY ARTERIES; CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MEAN OF DIFFERENCE; MOVEMENT ARTIFACTS; OUTLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELS; PRESSURE WAVEFORMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84901264713     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2310954     Document Type: Article

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