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      Two-Dimensional Tortuosity of the Superficial Femoral Artery in Early Atherosclerosis

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          Tortuosity of an artery can disturb fluid mechanics and cause flow separation, which might in turn promote atherogenesis. This study discusses theoretically several quantitative measures of arterial tortuosity and curvature in two dimensions and tests them with computations from digitized femoral arteriograms. When reproducibility, sensitivity to scaling and computational procedure, and agreement between the measures were all taken into account, the total curvature and distance factor were considered the most suitable measures. Significant correlations were found between tortuosity and atherosclerosis measures, but the interpretation of this finding is not straightforward.

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          Journal
          JVR
          J Vasc Res
          10.1159/issn.1018-1172
          Journal of Vascular Research
          S. Karger AG
          1018-1172
          1423-0135
          1993
          1993
          23 September 2008
          : 30
          : 4
          : 181-191
          Affiliations
          aDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala; bDepartment of Internal Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping; cDepartment of Internal Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
          Article
          158993 J Vasc Res 1993;30:181–191
          10.1159/000158993
          8357949
          8413600a-20f1-49ec-a096-1cf7bf3286ef
          © 1993 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          History
          : 26 May 1992
          : 23 February 1993
          Page count
          Pages: 11
          Categories
          Research Paper

          General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
          Artery,Tortuosity,Fluid mechanics,Curvature,Atherosclerosis

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