Modelling Cerebral Aneurysm Evolution

Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages 373-399

  Watton, Paul N ^a   Ventikos, Yiannis ^a   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arterial Wall; Collagen Fabric; Collagen Fibre; Cyclic Stretch; Wall Shear Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 85085163622     PISSN: 18682006     EISSN: 18682014     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/8415_2011_77     Document Type: Chapter

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