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The Physics of Coronary Blood Flow

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. M. Zamir

    1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

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  • Dynamics, of fluid or solid objects, is a branch of physics, engineering, and applied mathematics and, as yet, it is not a branch of medicine
  • Coronary heart disease, on the other hand, is a branch of medicine that, as yet, does not include the dynamics of coronary blood flow
  • This book is dedicated to bridging these two seemingly disparate ends
  • No other book found approaches either topics in this way
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering (BIOMEDICAL)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Static Design Issues

    Pages 1-34

  3. Modelling Preliminaries

    Pages 35-77

  4. Basic Lumped Elements

    Pages 79-114

  5. Forced Dynamics of the RLC System

    Pages 115-143

  6. The Analysis of Composite Waveforms

    Pages 145-175

  7. Composite Pressure-Flow Relations

    Pages 177-220

  8. Lumped Models

    Pages 221-254

  9. Elements of Unlumped-Model Analysis

    Pages 255-298

  10. Basic Unlumped Models

    Pages 299-360

  11. Dynamic Pathologies

    Pages 361-389

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 391-408
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About this book

The fields of biological and medical physics and biomedical engineering are broad, multidisciplinary and dyanmic. They lie at the crossroads of frontier - search in physics, biology, chemistry, and medicine. The Biological & Me- cal Physics/Biomedical Engineering Series is intended to be comprehensive, covering a broad range of topics important to the study of the physical, che- cal and biological sciences. Its goal is to provide scientists and engineers with textbooks, monographs, and reference works to address the growing need for information. Books in the series emphasize established and emergent areas of science - cluding molecular, membrane, and mathematical biophysics; photosynthetic - ergy harvesting and conversion; information processing; physical principles of genetics; sensory communications; automata networks, neural networks, and cellular automata. Equally important will be coverage of applied aspects of b- logical and medical physics and biomedical engineering such as molecular el- tronic components and devices, biosensors, medicine, imaging, physical prin- ples of renewable energy production, advanced prostheses, and environmental control and engineering. Elias Greenbaum Oak Ridge, TN M. Zamir Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, N6A 5B7 CANADA zamir@uwo.ca Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zamir, M. (Mair) The physics of coronary blood flow / M. Zamir. p. cm. — (Biological and medical physics, biomedical engineering) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Coronary circulation. 2. Hemodynamics. 3. Blood flow. I. Title. II. Series. QP108.Z36 2005 612.1?7—dc22 2005042502 ISBN-10: 0-387-25297-5 e-ISBN: 0-387-26019-6 Printed on acid-free paper.

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"This is an in-depth study of the dynamics and physics of coronary blood flow … . The author who is an engineer/mathematician spares no details and is very, very thorough in his exposition. … I would like to commend the author for providing many helpful figures and flow charts to ease the transition from concepts to mathematics and beyond. … you will enjoy it for its content and retain it as a valuable reference." (H. W. Vayo, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2006 g)

"This book is devoted to the study of a very complex subject – the dynamics and physics of coronary blood flow – which the author defines as the blood flow to the heart for its own metabolic needs. … This book deserves high praise. The clarity of its writing and the sequence and demonstrated mastery of the contents make it ‘an easy to read’ and ‘an easy to understand’ fascinating text. I strongly recommend it to all researchers in the field and to all libraries." (Harold Ramkissoon, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1121 (23), 2007)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    M. Zamir

About the author

The author, originally trained in fluid dynamics, has been teaching and working on the dynamics of blood flow in general and coronary blood flow in particular for the past thirty years and has produced a book that will appeal to physicians, physicists and engineers.

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