Tetrahedral and polyhedral mesh evaluation for cerebral hemodynamic simulation - A comparison

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2787-2790

  Spiegel, Martin ^a   Redel, Thomas ^b   Zhang, Y Jonathan ^c   Struffert, Tobias ^a   Hornegger, Joachim ^a   Grossman, Robert G ^c   Doerfler, Arnd ^a   Karmonik, Christof ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICINE; MESH GENERATION; SHEAR STRESS;

BLOOD FLOW SIMULATIONS; CEREBRAL HEMODYNAMICS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; FASTER CONVERGENCE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; TETRAHEDRAL MESHING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77950967723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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