Automated generation of a finite element stent model

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1169-1173

  Mortier, Peter ^a   Beule, Matthieu ^a   Van Loo, Denis ^a   Masschaele, Bert ^a   Verdonck, Pascal ^a   Verhegghe, Benedict ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Centerline; Finite element mesh; Stent

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MESH GENERATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AUTOMATED GENERATIONS; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BEAM ELEMENTS; CENTERLINE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORTS; COMPUTER MODELS; CT IMAGES; FINITE ELEMENT MESH; FINITE ELEMENTS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIORS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PRE-PROCESSING; SOLID ELEMENTS; SPEED-UP; STENT; STENT GEOMETRIES; TRIANGULATED SURFACES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; STENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56649102180     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-008-0410-3     Document Type: Article

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