An Insight into the Mechanistic Role of the Common Carotid Artery on the Hemodynamics at the Carotid Bifurcation

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 68-81

  Gallo, Diego ^a   Steinman, David A ^b,c   Morbiducci, Umberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Computational hemodynamics; Helical flow; Vascular disease; Vascular geometry; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMICS; SHEAR STRESS;

CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTATIONAL HEMODYNAMICS; HELICAL FLOWS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR GEOMETRY; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; FLUID FLOW; GEOMETRY; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; VASCULAR DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 84920507919     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-014-1119-0     Document Type: Article

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