Comprehensive validation of computational fluid dynamics simulations of in-vivo blood flow in patient-specific cerebral aneurysms

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 742-754

  Sun, Qi ^a,b   Groth, Alexandra ^a,b   Aach, Til ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; patient specific CFD; time intensity curve; validation; virtual angiography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; DECISION MAKING; FLOW RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANEURYSM; PATIENT SPECIFIC; TIME-INTENSITY CURVES; VALIDATION; VIRTUAL ANGIOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84856965554     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3675402     Document Type: Article

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