Fast virtual deployment of self-expandable stents: Method and in vitro evaluation for intracranial aneurysmal stenting

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 721-730

  Larrabide, Ignacio ^a,b   Kim, Minsuok ^a,b   Augsburger, Luca ^c,d   Villa Uriol, Maria Cruz ^a,b   Rüfenacht, Daniel ^c,d   Frangi, Alejandro F ^a,b,e  

^a BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CFD; In vitro validation; Intracranial aneurysms; Simplex deformable models; Virtual angiography; Virtual stenting

Indexed keywords

DEFORMABLE MODELS; IN VITRO VALIDATION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS; STENTING; VIRTUAL ANGIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; PATIENT TREATMENT; SILICONES;

STENTS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM STENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84858078863     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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