World Neurosurgery
Volume 73, Issue 3 , Pages 174-185 , March 2010

Flow patterns and distributions of fluid velocity and wall shear stress in the human internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries

  • Shigekazu Takeuchi, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Nagaoka Chuou General Hospital, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-8653, Japan
    • ,
  • Takeshi Karino, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Biofluid Dynamics, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 011-0021, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 11 756 2006; fax: +81 11 756 2006.

Received 1 September 2008 ,Accepted 24 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surneu.2009.03.030

World Neurosurgery
Volume 73, Issue 3 , Pages 174-185 , March 2010

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