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Researchers at Brunel University publish new data on angiology

Published in Blood Weekly, December 4th, 2008

"This numerical study aims to investigate the capacity of the circle of Wills (CoW) to provide collateral blood supply for patients with unilateral carotid arterial stenosis," scientists writing in the Journal of Biomechanics report.

"The basic 3D geometry of the CoW was reconstructed based on a magnetic resonance angiogram of a normal human subject," wrote Q. Long and colleagues, Brunel University.

The researchers concluded: "A total of 52 computational fluid dynamics simulations were performed for four geometry configurations of the CoW with an artificially inserted axisymmetric stenosis of different luminal area reductions in an internal...

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