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Impact of plaques in the left coronary artery on wall shear stress and pressure gradient in coronary side branches

Chaichana T, Sun Z, Jewkes J. Impact of plaques in the left coronary artery on wall shear stress and pressure gradient in coronary side branches. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. January 2014;17(2):108-118.

Publication Date
January 2014

How Analyze was Used
“Volume data were reconstructed at 70–80% RR interval to minimise unwanted artefacts. Image post-processing and segmentation of the volume data were done using a workstation equipped with Analyze 7.0 (AnalyzeDirect, Inc., Lenexa, KS, USA).”

Keywords
Aortography
Computer Simulation
Coronary Artery Disease/physiopathology/radiography
Coronary Vessels/physiopathology/radiography
Hemodynamics
Humans
Hydrodynamics
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Cardiovascular
Plaque, Atherosclerotic/physiopathology/radiography
Pressure
Shear Strength
Stress, Mechanical

Author Affiliation(s)
Discipline of Medical Imaging, Department of Imaging and Applied Physics, Curtin University, PerthWA6845, Australia. (TC, ZS)

Fluid Dynamics Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, PerthWA6845, Australia. (JJ)

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