Perfusion characteristics of the human hepatic microcirculation based on three-dimensional reconstructions and computational fluid dynamic analysis

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Debbaut, Charlotte ^a   Vierendeels, Jan ^a   Casteleyn, Christophe ^b   Cornillie, Pieter ^a   Van Loo, Denis ^a   Simoens, Paul ^a   Van Hoorebeke, Luc ^a   Monbaliu, Diethard ^c   Segers, Patrick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

computational fluid dynamics; human liver microcirculation; permeability tensor; porosity; wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMFERENTIAL DIRECTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS TECHNIQUE; DATA SETS; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW DIRECTION; FLUID DOMAIN; FUNCTIONAL UNITS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN LIVER; IMAGE-BASED; MICRO CT; MICROVASCULAR; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; PERMEABILITY TENSORS; POROUS MEDIUM; POROUS MEDIUM APPROACH; POST PROCESSING; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; PRINCIPAL PERMEABILITY; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; TETRAHEDRAL CELLS; THREE MODELS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) RECONSTRUCTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; VASCULAR CORROSION CASTING; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROCIRCULATION; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TENSORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER SINUSOID; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SHEAR STRESS; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROCIRCULATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; MICROCIRCULATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84859904293     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4005545     Document Type: Article

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