Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 251-258 , April 2006

Wall shear stresses in small and large two-way bypass grafts

  • Aike Qiao

      Affiliations

    • Beijing University of Technology, Biomedical Engineering Centre, 100 Pingleyuan, Beijing 100022, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Youjun Liu

      Affiliations

    • Beijing University of Technology, Biomedical Engineering Centre, 100 Pingleyuan, Beijing 100022, PR China
    • ,
  • Zhihong Guo

      Affiliations

    • Advanced Calculation Engineering Department, Surigiken Co. Ltd., Tokyo 1410041, Japan

Received 10 May 2004 ,Revised 15 March 2005 ,Accepted 25 May 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.05.004

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 251-258 , April 2006

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