Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 304-314, May 2006

Reduction of compartment compliance increases venous flow pulsatility and lowers apparent vascular compliance: Implications for cerebral blood flow hemodynamics

  • Xiao Hu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurosurgery, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, 10833 LeConte Ave., 74-134 CHS (Mail-Code 956901), Los Angeles, CA 90095-6901, USA
    • Biomedical Engineering Program, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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  • Abeer A. Alwan

      Affiliations

    • Biomedical Engineering Program, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    • Department of Electrical Engineering, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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  • Eduardo H. Rubinstein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    • Department of Physiology, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  • ,
  • Marvin Bergsneider

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurosurgery, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, 10833 LeConte Ave., 74-134 CHS (Mail-Code 956901), Los Angeles, CA 90095-6901, USA
    • Biomedical Engineering Program, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 310 206 4100; fax: +1 310 825 7245.

Received 1 November 2004; received in revised form 9 June 2005; accepted 4 July 2005. published online 22 August 2005.

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PII: S1350-4533(05)00138-4

doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.07.006

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 304-314, May 2006