Computational fluid dynamics in a model of the total cavopulmonary connection reconstructed using magnetic resonance images

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2005, Pages 61-67

  Socci, Laura ^a   Gervaso, Francesca ^a   Migliavacca, Francesco ^a   Pennati, Giancarlo ^a   Dubini, Gabriele ^a   Ait Ali, Lamia ^b   Festa, Pierluigi ^b   Amoretti, Francesca ^c   Scebba, Luigi ^c   Luisi, Vincenzo Stefano ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c G PASQUINUCCI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Haemodynamics; Magnetic resonance; Mathematical model

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLALOCK TAUSSIG ANASTOMOSIS; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CAVA VEIN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULMONARY ARTERY; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENAE CAVAE;

EID: 27744456517     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951105001666     Document Type: Article

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