Blood flow distribution in an anatomically detailed arterial network model: criteria and algorithms

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1303-1330

  Blanco, Pablo J ^a,b   Watanabe, Sansuke M ^a,b,c   Dari, Enzo A ^d   Passos, Marco Aurélio R F ^e,f   Feijóo, Raúl A ^a,b  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

^b National Institute of Science and Technology Medicine Assisted by Scientific Computing   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^d CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^f Petropolis School of Medicine   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Arterial circulation; Computational hemodynamics; Parameter identification; Vascular territories

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ANATOMY; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTERIAL NETWORKS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTATIONAL HEMODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; NETWORK MODELS; PARAMETERS IDENTIFICATION; VASCULAR TERRITORY;

TOPOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTERY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW; CALIBRATION; ELASTICITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; CALIBRATION; ELASTICITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PRESSURE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 84919415005     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16177940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-014-0574-8     Document Type: Article

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