Intra-ventricular blood flow simulation with patient specific geometry

Proceedings of the IEEE/EMBS Region 8 International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 126-129

  Long, Q ^a   Merrifield, R ^a   Xu, X Y ^a   Kilner, P J ^b   Firmin, D N ^b   Yang, G Z ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blood flow; CFD; left ventricle; MRI

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MESH GENERATION;

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW SIMULATIONS; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMBINED ANALYSIS; LEFT VENTRICLES; NUMERICAL MESHES; PATIENT SPECIFIC; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77952834383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2003.1222489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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