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A Survey of Quantitative Descriptors of Arterial Flows

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Visualization and Simulation of Complex Flows in Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract

Knowledge of blood flow mechanics is a critical issue (1) for an in depth understanding of the relationships between hemodynamic factors and arterial homeostasis and (2) for the identification of those flow features that lead to changes in the function and health of vessels. While from one side there is clear evidence that regions of disrupted flow are correlated to, e.g., the localization of atherosclerosis, the development of aneurysms and non-physiological transport of species, on the opposite cause-effect links still do not emerge clearly. To allow for a more effective and valuable understanding of blood flow structures and mechanisms in complex four-dimensional cardiovascular flows, in recent years a large number of hemodynamic parameters have surfaced in the literature, enabling the understanding of arterial hemodynamics and of the role of streaming blood in the development of pathological events. In this work, a survey of the currently adopted methods to characterize blood flow structures in arteries is presented and open questions (1) on their clinical utility and (2) on the inherent limitations in their in silico and in vivo application are discussed.

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Gallo, D. et al. (2014). A Survey of Quantitative Descriptors of Arterial Flows. In: Lima, R., Imai, Y., Ishikawa, T., Oliveira, M. (eds) Visualization and Simulation of Complex Flows in Biomedical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7769-9_1

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