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Index
carbon dioxide,
5,
30, 33, 35,239
cardiac assistance,
234, 235, 244
cardiac cycle,
46, 87, 139, 140, 205,
cardiac indices,
146
cardiac muscle,
76, 77, 79, 87, 234,
236,240
cardiac output,
12, 13, 19, 20, 39,
81,
82, 84, 175, 193, 207, 231, 232,
236, 237,238,239,241, 242, 243,
244
carotid artery,
109, 110, 148, 152, 176
carotid sinus,
36, 37, 38, 39,243
catheter,
6, 9, 13, 91, 92, 98, 101, 189,
214, 2 15, 217, 21
8,
219, 22 1, 222,
227,229,231,232,233
218,219,221
239
catheter-manometer system,
6, 217,
catheter-tip transducer,
189
characteristic impedance,
83,
85,
88,
96,97,98, 111, 117, 135, 137, 138,
158, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164, 166
circumferential stress,
205, 224, 225
closed-loop control,
243,244
collagen,
9, 10, 23, 28, 29, 39, 109,
collapsible tube,
182, 184, 185, 186
contact stress,
225
contractility,
3, 82,
85,
87
coronary artery,
144, 145, 149, 174,
237
coronary blood flow,
239,240,241,
242,243,244
coupling,
83, 86, 87,215
creep,
10,48, 49, 53
cube law,
168, 171
damping,
51, 94, 100, 104, 127, 129,
164,218,221
diameter,
13, 18, 20, 22,25, 26, 27, 28,
29, 43,44, 46, 47,49, 50, 51, 52,
73, 74, 75, 82, 99, 108, 121, 143,
145, 173, 174, 196, 197, 200, 201,
206,210,211,212,233,241
diastole,
2, 46, 77, 91, 131, 133, 140,
175,235,236,242
126, 174,197
dimensional analysis,
41, 44, 153
distensibility,
10, 76, 131, 136, 191,
distributed model,
21 1
Doppler ultrasound,
229
dynamic elastic modulus,
5
1, 189
echocardiography,
13
ejection,
10, 46, 76, 77, 79, 81, 82, 83,
88,
91, 92, 97, 99, 114, 140, 175,
207,221,239,241
elastance,
81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87,
88,
89,
136
elastic modulus,
28, 51,
52,
53, 103,
166, 176, 189,210
elastin,
9, 10, 23,28, 39, 109, 126, 174
electric analog,
134
electromagnetic flowmeter,
6, 13,226,
end-diastolic volume,
79,
8
1
endothelium,
20,23, 24, 156, 192, 197,
end-systole,
77, 81, 85,
88,
91, 140
entry length,
75,201
equation of continuity,
1
1, 12 1, 170
equation
of
motion,
128
external work,
83,237,241
Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect,
20 1, 2 10
femoral artery,
18,
21,
51, 94, 102, 109,
110, 117, 141, 149,220,236
flow acceleration,
71, 120
flowmeter,
5,
6, 13,226, 227
foot-to-foot velocity,
101, 102, 103,
forward wave,
1 14, 1 16
Fourier,
10,41, 54,
55,
56,
58,
60, 94,
fractal,
9, 143
Frank-Starling mechanism,
81
frequency domain,
10, 52, 94, 1 16
frequency response,
13, 2 16, 2 17, 2 18,
gas law,
30
geometry,
7, 12,63, 75, 102, 13
5,
142,
143, 150, 151, 154, 156, 165, 166,
23
8
203,204,210
227
202
189, 190
136,216
219,220,221
