Recommendations for accurate numerical blood flow simulations of stented intracranial aneurysms

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 303-314

  Janiga, Gabor ^a   Berg, Philipp ^a   Beuing, Oliver ^a   Neugebauer, Mathias ^a   Gasteiger, Rocco ^a   Preim, Bernhard ^a   Rose, Georg ^a   Skalej, Martin ^a   Thevenin, Dominique ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysms; CFD; Hemodynamics; Mesh dependency; Turnover time; Virtual stenting

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW SIMULATIONS; CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS; MESH-DEPENDENCY; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; STENTING; TURNOVER TIME;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUALITY CONTROL; STENTS;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT; PROCEDURES;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84881490041     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bmt-2012-0119     Document Type: Article

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