CFD for Evaluation and Treatment Planning of Aneurysms: Review of Proposed Clinical Uses and Their Challenges

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 122-138

  Chung, Bongjae ^a   Cebral, Juan Raul ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysms; CFD; Endovascular devices; Rupture risk factors

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; LARGE DATASET; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY;

ANEURYSMS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; ENDOVASCULAR DEVICES; FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; RUPTURE RISK; SURGICAL TREATMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR REMODELING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ANEURYSM CLIP; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHEAR STRESS; TREATMENT PLANNING; ANEURYSM; ANIMAL; HYDRODYNAMICS;

ANEURYSM; ANIMALS; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 84920533557     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-014-1093-6     Document Type: Article

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