Development of a patient-specific simulation tool to analyse aortic dissections: Assessment of mixed patient-specific flow and pressure boundary conditions

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 275-284

  Alimohammadi, Mona ^a   Agu, Obiekezie ^b   Balabani, Stavroula ^a   Díaz Zuccarini, Vanessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Blood flow; CFD; Patient specific simulation; Windkessel model

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS;

AORTIC DISSECTIONS; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; DYNAMIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PATIENT SPECIFIC; PRESSURE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS; WINDKESSEL MODELS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA FLOW; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATIENT SPECIFIC SIMULATION TOOL; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION;

AORTIC DISSECTION; BLOOD FLOW; CFD; PATIENT-SPECIFIC SIMULATION; WINDKESSEL MODEL;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84895924928     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2013.11.003     Document Type: Article

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