Personalised computational cardiology: Patient-specific modelling in cardiac mechanics and biomaterial injection therapies for myocardial infarction

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 815-826

  Sack, Kevin L ^a   Davies, Neil H ^b   Guccione, Julius M ^c   Franz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac disease; Computational model; Finite element method; Heart failure; Ischaemic heart disease; Subject specific

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; HYALURONIC ACID; MACROGOL;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CARDIOLOGY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DEVICE THERAPY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREDICTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERAPY EFFECT; VENTRICULAR PARTITIONING DEVICE; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; INJECTION; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING; RATS;

EID: 84993894882     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: 15737322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-016-9528-9     Document Type: Article

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