Modelling pipeline for subject-specific arterial blood flow-A review

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1868-1910

  Sazonov, Igor ^a   Yeo, Si Yong ^a   Bevan, Rhodri L T ^a   Xie, Xianghua ^a   van Loon, Raoul ^a   Nithiarasu, Perumal ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Carotid bifurcation; Fluid dynamics; Image segmentation; Pipeline; Stenosis; Subject specific modelling; Surface and volume meshing

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTERIAL GEOMETRY; BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID BIFURCATION; DEFORMABLE MODELS; DOMAIN DISCRETIZATION; FLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FLOW SOLVER; FLOWTHROUGH; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN CAROTID ARTERY; LEVEL SET; MESH CONSTRUCTION; POTENTIAL FORCES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SKELETONIZATION; STENOSIS; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; SURFACE MESH;

BLOOD; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEMODYNAMICS; INLET FLOW; MESH GENERATION; PIPE; PIPELINES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 82255191886     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1446     Document Type: Review

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