Multiscale modelling as a tool to prescribe realistic boundary conditions for the study of surgical procedures

Biorheology

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 359-364

  Lagana K ^a,b   Dubini, G ^a,b   Migliavacca, F ^a,b   Pietrabissa, R ^a,b   Pennati, G ^a,b   Veneziani, A ^a,b   Quarteroni, A ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Paediatric cardiac surgery

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CHILD; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0036375364     PISSN: 0006355X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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