Enhanced Multifactorial Biomechanical Stress Metrics to Predict Plaque Rupture: Rapid Assessment of Morphology and Plaque Structural Stress

JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Mar;13(3):817-819. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.02.006. Epub 2019 Apr 17.

Authors

Peter H Stone¹, Dimitrios I Fotiadis²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: pstone@bwh.harvard.edu.
² Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece; Department of Biomedical Research, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Ioannina, Greece.

PMID: 31005526
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.02.006

No abstract available

Keywords: atherosclerosis; biomechanics; finite element; plaque rupture; stress.

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MeSH terms

Atherosclerosis*
Benchmarking
Coronary Artery Disease* / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Plaque, Atherosclerotic*