Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 5 , Pages 416-429 , June 2006

Optimized arterial trees supplying hollow organs

  • Wolfgang Schreiner

      Affiliations

    • Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43 1 40400 6679; fax: +43 1 40400 6677.
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  • Rudolf Karch

      Affiliations

    • Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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  • Martin Neumann

      Affiliations

    • Department for Experimental Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
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  • Friederike Neumann

      Affiliations

    • Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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  • Paul Szawlowski

      Affiliations

    • Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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  • Susanne Roedler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Received 10 June 2004 ,Revised 12 May 2005 ,Accepted 7 July 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.07.019

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 5 , Pages 416-429 , June 2006

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