... remodeling. 02 05 2011 17 11 2011 23 12 2011 23 12 2011 biomechanics cardiology diseases elongation haemodynamics numerical analysis physiological models vortices An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a dilation of at least 1.5 times the diameter of the largest...

...Bram Trachet; Joris Bols; Gianluca De Santis; Stefaan Vandenberghe; Bart Loeys; Patrick Segers Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations allow for calculation of a detailed flow field in the mouse aorta and can thus be used to investigate a potential link between local hemodynamics and disease...

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... Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease at Stanford University, and NIH Award No. R15HL096096-01. Material presented is based upon work supported by NSF Grant No. 0205741. The authors gratefully acknowledge Dr. Nathan Wilson and Timothy Gundert for technical assistance. References 1 O’Rourke...

... nonlinearity [( 26 )]. It is likely that, like elasticity, the dependence of viscosity on time, strain and strain rate could change dramatically with scale, aging or disease. Chronic alterations in viscosity may well have a large effect on muscle function and thus sources of viscosity should be considered...

...Joseph T. Keyes; Darren G. Haskett; Urs Utzinger; Mohamad Azhar; Jonathan P. Vande Geest Murine models of disease are a powerful tool for researchers to gain insight into disease formation, progression, and therapies. The biomechanical indicators of diseased tissue provide a unique insight...

...Mazyar Amin; Amber G. Kunkel; Victoria P. Le; Jessica E. Wagenseil Determining arterial mechanical properties is important for understanding the work done by the heart and how it changes with cardiovascular disease. Ex vivo tests are necessary to apply various loads to the artery and obtain data...

... diseases haemodynamics porosity stents Dorland Medical Dictionary defines a cerebral aneurysm as an abnormal bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel supplying the cerebrum (brain). Aneurysms can rupture and bleed into the area between the brain and the surrounding membrane (arachnoid). The space...

...Emily J. Berg; Risa J. Robinson Emphysema is a progressive lung disease that involves permanent destruction of the alveolar walls. Fluid mechanics in the pulmonary region and how they are altered with the presence of emphysema are not well understood. Much of our understanding of the flow fields...

...O. Ivanchenko; V. Ivanchenko Convection-enhanced delivery (CED) is a drug delivery technique used to target specific regions of the central nervous system (CNS) for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and cancer while bypassing the blood–brain barrier (BBB). The application of CED...

... applications, such as patient-specific modeling, disease diagnosis, and tracking of age- or damage-related degradation of mechanical properties. Elasticity imaging (elastography) is a nondestructive imaging method in which the distribution of elastic properties throughout a specimen can be reconstructed from...

...H. P. Wagner; J. D. Humphrey Cerebrovascular disease continues to be responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. There is, therefore, a pressing need to understand better the biomechanics of both intracranial arteries and the extracranial arteries that feed these vessels. We used...

...N. K. C. Selvarasu; Danesh K. Tafti; Pavlos P. Vlachos Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death in the world, making the understanding of hemodynamics and development of treatment options imperative. The most common modality for treatment of occlusive coronary artery diseases...

... , 219 , pp. 465 – 476 . 10.1243/095441105X34446 Cho , Y. I. , and Kensey , K. R. , 1991 , “ Effect of the Non-Newtonian Viscosity of Blood on Flows in a Diseased Arterial Vessel. Part 1: Steady Flows ,” Biorheology 0006-355X , 28 , pp. 241 – 262 . Cole , J. S...

... and pathological conditions. The two analyzed tracheal geometries, which include the first bifurcation after the carina, were obtained from computed tomography images of healthy and diseased patients, respectively. A finite element-based commercial software code was used to perform the simulations. The tracheal...

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