"virtual" (Computed) Fractional Flow Reserve Current Challenges and Limitations

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1009-1017

  Morris, Paul D ^a,b   Van De Vosse, Frans N ^c   Lawford, Patricia V ^a   Hose, D Rodney ^a   Gunn, Julian P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

computational fluid dynamics; computational modeling; coronary angiography; fractional flow reserve; percutaneous coronary intervention; virtual fractional flow reserve

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; VIRTUAL FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84937739100     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: 18767605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2015.04.006     Document Type: Review

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