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Coronary heart disease (CHD) remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide. This study introduces a novel approach that integrates patient-specific Multi-slice CT scans into CAD models, using a one-dimensional numerical framework to assess…
Background: Right anomalous aortic origin of coronary arteries (R-AAOCA) involves fixed compression, assessable with adenosine-derived fractional flow reserve (FFRAdnosine), and additional stress-induced dynamic compression captured by…
Aims: To develop an in-silico model of the aorta and its spinal cord-supplying branches, and to characterise haemodynamic changes following aortic aneurysm (AA) repair with such a model. The work is motivated by the risk of spinal cord…
Altered hemodynamics play a key role in cerebrovascular diseases such as aneurysms and stenosis. However, in vivo imaging lacks the spatial resolution required to resolve flow dynamics in small vessels. This study presents an experimental…
The precise segmentation of intracranial aneurysms and their parent vessels (IA-Vessel) is a critical step for hemodynamic analyses, which mainly depends on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). However, current segmentation methods…
Shear stress plays an important role in the creation and evolution of atherosclerosis. An key element for in-vivo measurements and extrapolations is the dependence of shear stress on body mass. In the case of a Poiseuille modeling of the…
The slow flow of amorphous solids exhibits striking heterogeneities: swift localised particle rearrangements take place in the midst of a more or less homogeneously deforming medium. Recently, experimental as well as numerical work has…
High-fidelity numerical simulations such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) have been proven effective in analysing haemodynamics, offering insight into many vascular conditions. However, these methods often face challenges of high…
Patient-specific modeling of cardiovascular flows with high-fidelity is challenging due to its dependence on accurately estimated velocity boundary profiles, which are essential for precise simulations and directly influence wall shear…
Image-based modeling is essential for understanding cardiovascular hemodynamics and advancing the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Constructing patient-specific vascular models remains labor-intensive, error-prone, and…
Background: Despite the recent advances in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques applied to blood flow within the left atrium (LA), the relationship between atrial geometry, flow patterns, and blood stasis within the left atrial…
Background: Despite the significant advances made in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate the left atrium (LA) in atrial fibrillation (AF) conditions, the connection between atrial structure, flow dynamics, and blood…
Intrasaccular flow disruptors treat cerebral aneurysms by diverting the blood flow from the aneurysm sac. Residual flow into the sac after the intervention is a failure that could be due to the use of an undersized device, or to vascular…
Quantitative angiography (QA) in two dimensions has been instrumental in assessing neurovascular contrast flow patterns, aiding disease severity and treatment outcome evaluations. However, QA requires high spatio-temporal resolution,…
The left atrium (LA) plays a pivotal role in modulating left ventricular filling, but our comprehension of its hemodynamics is significantly limited by the constraints of conventional ultrasound analysis. 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging…
Flow fluctuations have recently emerged as a promising hemodynamic metric for understanding the rupture risk of intracranial aneurysms. Several investigations have reported in the literature corresponding flow instabilities using…
Perturbations to the homeostatic distribution of mechanical forces exerted by blood on the endothelial layer have been correlated with vascular pathologies including intracranial aneurysms and atherosclerosis. Recent computational work…
We study correlations of hydrodynamic fluctuations in shear flow analytically and also by dissipative particle dynamics~(DPD) simulations. The hydrodynamic equations are linearized around the macroscopic velocity field and then solved by a…
There is currently limited understanding of the role played by haemodynamic forces on the processes governing vascular development. One of many obstacles to be overcome is being able to measure those forces, at the required resolution…
In Angiographic Parametric Imaging (API), accurate estimation of parameters from Time Density Curves (TDC) is crucial. However, these estimations are often marred by errors arising from factors such as patient motion, procedural…