Influence of wall thickness on fluid-structure interaction computations of cerebral aneurysms

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 336-347

  Torii, Ryo ^a   Oshima, Marie ^b   Kobayashi, Toshio ^c   Takagi, Kiyoshi ^b,d   Tezduyar, Tayfun E ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Fluid structure interaction; Patient Specific modeling; Wall thickness

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL; CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS; CT IMAGE; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING; PRESSURE PROFILES; RUPTURE RISK; WALL MODEL; WALL SHEAR STRESS; WALL THICKNESS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW VELOCITY; FLUIDS;

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 77953118609     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1289     Document Type: Article

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