Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, which can result in coronary artery stenosis, acute
coronary artery occlusion, and eventually myocardial infarction, is a major cause of morbidity …

Cardiovascular disease has been the major cause of death worldwide. Although the
initiation and progression mechanism of the atherosclerosis are similar, the stenotic …

Coronary arterial stenoses, particularly serial stenoses in a single branch, are responsible
for complex hemodynamic properties of the coronary arterial trees, and the uncertain …

We propose a hierarchical parameter estimation framework for performing patient‐specific
hemodynamic computations in arterial models, which use structured tree boundary …

Background Currently, the gold standard diagnostic examination for significant aortoiliac
lesions is angiography. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) has a growing body of literature in …

This Doctoral Thesis represents, for me, the culmination of a very important chapter in my
life. I like to think of it as an adventure, a glance of the academic world and the beginning of …

The history of coronary bifurcation treatment is superimposed with that of coronary
angioplasty as illustrated in the early 1980s by the description of the kissing balloon …

In the last two decades, coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) has been
introduced as a noninvasive alternative for the assessment of coronary anatomy. Research …

The branching pattern of the coronary vasculature is a key determinant of its function and
plays a crucial role in shaping the pressure and velocity waveforms measured for clinical …

There is a remarkable relationship between an organism's metabolic rate (resting power
consumption) and the organism's mass. It may be a universal law of nature that an …