Pulsatile blood flow, shear force, energy dissipation and Murray's Law

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Murray's Law states that, when a parent blood vessel branches into daughter vessels, the cube of the radius of the parent vessel is equal to the sum of the cubes of the radii of daughter blood vessels. Murray derived this law by...

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Main Authors: Bengtsson Hans-Uno, Edén Patrik, Painter Page R
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-08-01
Series:Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
Online Access:http://www.tbiomed.com/content/3/1/31