Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
Volume 112, Issue 4 , Pages 306-313 , May 2010

Effects of smoking and hypertension on wall shear stress and oscillatory shear index at the site of intracranial aneurysm formation

  • Pankaj K. Singh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK. Tel.: +44 114 2712180; fax: +44 114 2713314.
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  • Alberto Marzo

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Medical Physics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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  • Bethany Howard

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Medical Physics, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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  • Daniel A. Rufenacht

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroradiology, Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben, Basel, Switzerland
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  • Philippe Bijlenga

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland
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  • Alejandro F. Frangi

      Affiliations

    • Center for Computational Imaging & Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
    • Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Spain
    • Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avaçats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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  • Patricia V. Lawford

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Medical Physics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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  • Stuart C. Coley

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroradiology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
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  • D. Rodney Hose

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Medical Physics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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  • Umang J. Patel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK

Received 5 August 2009 ,Revised 6 November 2009 ,Accepted 28 December 2009.

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Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
Volume 112, Issue 4 , Pages 306-313 , May 2010

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