A three-dimensional finite element model of human atrial anatomy: New methods for cubic Hermite meshes with extraordinary vertices

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 525-537

  Gonzales, Matthew J ^a   Sturgeon, Gregory ^b   Krishnamurthy, Adarsh ^a   Hake, Johan ^a,c   Jonas, René ^a   Stark, Paul ^d   Rappel, Wouter Jan ^e   Narayan, Sanjiv M ^d,e,f   Zhang, Yongjie ^g   Segars, W Paul ^b   McCulloch, Andrew D ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^g CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial anatomy; Cubic Hermite finite elements; Patient specific cardiac models

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL ANATOMY; CARDIAC MODEL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; CUBIC HERMITE; HERMITE FINITE ELEMENTS; SUBDIVISION SURFACE SCHEME; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS;

ASPECT RATIO; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACCURACY; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84876712928     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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