Quantification of hemodynamics in abdominal aortic aneurysms during rest and exercise using magnetic resonance imaging and computational fluid dynamics

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1288-1313

  Les, Andrea S ^a   Shadden, Shawn C ^b   Figueroa, C Alberto ^a   Park, Jinha M ^c   Tedesco, Maureen M ^d   Herfkens, Robert J ^d   Dalman, Ronald L ^d   Taylor, Charles A ^a,e  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Flow waveforms; Mean wall shear stress; Mesh independence; Oscillatory shear index; Patient specific; Turbulence; Windkessel boundary condition

Indexed keywords

MESH INDEPENDENCE; OSCILLATORY SHEAR INDEX; PATIENT-SPECIFIC; WALL SHEAR STRESS; WINDKESSEL;

BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TURBULENCE;

SHEAR STRESS;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHYSICAL EXERTION; REST;

EID: 77952010401     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-9949-x     Document Type: Article

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