A database of virtual healthy subjects to assess the accuracy of foot-to-foot pulse wave velocities for estimation of aortic stiffness

This work presents a new methodology for the theoretical assessment of computed physiological indexes and algorithms based on pulse wave analysis. We created a database of virtual healthy subjects using a 1D model of the arterial hemodynamics. This study presents its application to central and peripheral foot-to-foot pulse wave velocities.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology

• Publication date

  2015-06-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1152/ajpheart.00175.2015PMID 26055792PMCID 4537944
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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