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According to the statistics of the World Health Organization (1970), cerebrovascular disorders rank among the top three categories of disease leading to mortality in the industrialized countries. A better understanding of cerebral vascular insufficiency, its detection and localization, may be gained through a quantitative characterization of the complete circulatory system of the brain in terms of the vascular morphology and the pressure and blood flow wave forms. Furthermore, various control mechanisms appear to condition blood flow in the brain, possibly by modifying the cross-sectional areas of certain blood vessels.
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Collins, R., Zagzoule, M. (1982). Blood Flow in the Human Brain. In: Kenner, T., Busse, R., Hinghofer-Szalkay, H. (eds) Cardiovascular System Dynamics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6693-3_24
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