Patient-specific Computational Fluid Dynamics: Structured mesh generation from coronary angiography

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 371-380

  De Santis, Gianluca ^a   Mortier, Peter ^a   De Beule, Matthieu ^a   Segers, Patrick ^a   Verdonck, Pascal ^a   Verhegghe, Benedict ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biplane angiography; CFD; Patient specific; pyFormex; Structured hexahedral mesh

Indexed keywords

BIPLANE ANGIOGRAPHIES; BLOOD FLOW SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY TREE; HEXAHEDRAL MESH; PRE-PROCESSING; STRUCTURED MESH; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEMODYNAMICS; MESH GENERATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 77954457704     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-010-0583-4     Document Type: Article

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