Adaptation and development of software simulation methodologies for cardiovascular engineering: Present and future challenges from an end-user perspective

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1898, 2009, Pages 2655-2666

  Diaz Zuccarini V ^a   Narracott, A J ^b   Burriesci, G ^a   Zervides, C ^a   Rafiroiu, D ^c   Jones, D ^d   Hose, D R ^b   Lawford, P V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^d ROTHERHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological modelling; Cardiovascular modelling and simulation; Multi scale modelling; Patient specific simulations; Simulation software; Virtual physiological human

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BIOLOGICAL MODELLING; CARDIOVASCULAR MODELLING AND SIMULATION; MULTI-SCALE MODELLING; PATIENT-SPECIFIC SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION SOFTWARE; VIRTUAL PHYSIOLOGICAL HUMAN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN;

HUMANS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67650340454     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0052     Document Type: Article

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