Morphometric, Geographic, and Territorial Characterization of Brain Arterial Trees

Overview

Journal Int J Numer Method Biomed Eng

Publisher Wiley

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Public Health

Date 2014 Jan 29

PMID 24470176

Citations 15

Authors

Fernando Mut

Susan Wright

Giorgio A Ascoli

Juan R Cebral

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Abstract

Morphometric information of the brain vascularization is valuable for a variety of clinical and scientific applications. In particular, this information is important when creating arterial tree models for imposing boundary conditions in numerical simulations of the brain hemodynamics. The purpose of this work is to provide quantitative descriptions of arterial branches, bifurcation patterns, shape, and geographical distribution of the arborization of the main cerebral arteries as well as estimations of the corresponding vascular territories. For this purpose, subject-specific digital reconstructions of the brain vascular network created from 3T magnetic resonance angiography images of healthy volunteers are used to derive population-averaged morphometric characteristics of the cerebral arterial trees. Copyri

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