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Minimizing thermal damage to vascular nerves while drilling of calcified plaque

Seifollah Gholampour1, Keyvan Hajirayat2

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Islamic Azad University-Tehran North Branch, Tehran, Iran. s.gholampour@iau-tnb.ac.ir.

BMC Research Notes
|June 16, 2019
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Keywords:
Calcified plaqueFinite element methodHigh speed drillingThermal strokeVascular nerve

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