Progress towards patient-specific computational flow modeling of the left heart via combination of magnetic resonance imaging with computational fluid dynamics

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 42-52

  Saber, Nikoo R ^a,b   Wood, Nigel B ^a,c   Gosman, A D ^a   Merrifield, Robert D ^a   Yang, Guang Zhong ^a   Charrier, Clare L ^c   Gatehouse, Peter D ^c   Firmin, David N ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood flow simulation; Experimental comparisons; Flow structure; Left ventricle; MRI measurements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAPHRAGMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BLOOD FLOW;

BLOOD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037283466     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.1533073     Document Type: Article

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