Three-dimensional computational prediction of cerebrospinal fluid flow in the human brain

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 67-75

  Sweetman, Brian ^a   Xenos, Michalis ^b   Zitella, Laura ^a   Linninger, Andreas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Computational fluid dynamics; Fluid structure interaction; Intracranial dynamics; Three dimensional modeling

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC CYCLES; CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; FLOW DATA; HUMAN BRAIN; HUMAN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; INTRACRANIAL DYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; PHASE CONTRAST MRI; SUBARACHNOID SPACES; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VENTRICULAR SYSTEMS;

BODY FLUIDS; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; FLUIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

EID: 78751613101     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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