Full-hexahedral structured meshing for image-based computational vascular modeling

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1318-1325

  De Santis, Gianluca ^a   De Beule, Matthieu ^a   Van Canneyt, Koen ^a   Segers, Patrick ^a   Verdonck, Pascal ^a   Verhegghe, Benedict ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Centerline; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Finite Element Analysis; Hexahedral mesh; Image based modeling; Patient specific; PyFormex

Indexed keywords

CENTERLINES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID; HEXAHEDRAL MESH; IMAGE-BASED MODELING; PATIENT-SPECIFIC; PYFORMEX;

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS; MESH GENERATION; TOPOLOGY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANISOTROPY; AORTA ARCH; ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE BASED COMPUTATIONAL VASCULAR MODELING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED MESH GENERATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 82755182905     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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