Distribution of Stress in Three-Dimensional Models of Human Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Based on Acrylic Histologic Sections
Each year in the United States over a million people experience a myocardial infarction. The majority of these attacks are caused by coronary artery plaque cap rupture with subsequent thrombus formation. Because rupture is a mechanical event and the tendency of a plaque to rupture is due in part t...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/16137 |