In this study, finite element analysis is used to simulate the surgical deployment procedure of a bifurcated stent-graft on a real patient's arterial geometry. The stent-graft is modeled using realistic constitutive properties for both the stent and most importantly for the graft. The arterial geometry is obtained from pre-operative imaging exam. The obtained results are in good agreement with the post-operative imaging data. As the whole computational time was reduced to less than 2 hours, this study constitutes an essential step towards predictive planning simulations of aneurysmal endovascular surgery
@article{arxiv.1401.3648,
title = {Patient-specific simulation of stent-graft deployment within an abdominal aortic aneurysm},
author = {David Perrin and Pierre Badel and Stéphane Avril and Jean-Noël Albertini and Laurent Orgéas and Christian Geindreau and Aurélien Dumenil and Cemil Goksu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3648},
year = {2014}
}