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Toward Computer Modelling of Blood Flow in an Anatomically Accurate Arterial Tree in Endovascular Interventions

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In this chapter, we present a numerical approach to simulate transient blood flow in an anatomically accurate arterial tree that spans the whole range of arteries involved in typical endovascular neuro-interventions. To serve this purpose, a cerebral arterial tree is coupled with an arterial tree based on the Visual Human Project (VHP). Blood flow in the arterial tree is solved by using a one-dimensional (1D) formulation of the governing viscous flow equations. We propose a strategy for modelling endo-devices in the vascular network. We show some preliminary results, including the transient flow in the arterial tree and the simulation of a balloon–occlusion procedure in vertebral arteries.

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This project was partly funded by @neurIST, a European aneurysm project, which we gratefully acknowledge.

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  1. Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Harvey Ho, Kumar Mithraratne & Peter Hunter

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, Chengdu, China

    Changwei Zhang & Xiaodong Xie

  3. Department of Radiology, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

    Andrew Holden

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Ho, H., Mithraratne, K., Zhang, C., Xie, X., Holden, A., Hunter, P. (2012). Toward Computer Modelling of Blood Flow in an Anatomically Accurate Arterial Tree in Endovascular Interventions. In: Nielsen, P., Wittek, A., Miller, K. (eds) Computational Biomechanics for Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3172-5_12

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