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[Investigation of the structure of human coronary vasculature]
Abstract:
Some results of a morphometric study of the parameters of coronary arteries are presented. The parameters that characterize the structure of the arterial vasculature as an optimal branching system have been calculated. Statistically reliable correlations between the diameter of the bigger of two daughter vessels in a bifurcation with the diameter of the parent vessel as well as between the diameter of the smaller daughter vessel and the asymmetry coefficient have been obtained. Differences in the structural parameters of the two types of coronary arteries that provide blood delivery and distribution have been revealed. The relationships between the lengths and diameters of the arteries of different subsystems have been obtained. It is shown that asymmetrical branching is characteristic of the coronary vasculature, and self-similar asymmetric tree-like systems may be used for its modeling.
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