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Structure-Function Relation in the Coronary Arterial Tree

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Structure-Function Relation in the Coronary Arterial Tree

European Bifurcation Club 2008 – EBC 2008 – Prague, Czech Republic

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Structure-Function Relation in the Coronary Arterial Tree

Author: Ghassan S. Kassab, Guidant Chair Professor Biomedical Engineering, Indiana/Purdue, University

 

CONCLUSION

  • The design of coronary vasculature obeys the “minimum energy hypothesis” (principle of economy or efficiency)
  • A set of scaling laws relate the various morphological (e.g., diameter, length and volume) and function (e.g., flow): Structure-Structure and Structure-Function Relations, respectively.

 

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