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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.