Kevin Milan
A quantitative analysis of the impact of different flow rate estimation techniques in computational hemodynamics models of coronary arteries.
Rel. Umberto Morbiducci, Diego Gallo, Claudio Chiastra, Maurizio Lodi Rizzini. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2021
Abstract
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become, in the last few decades, even more an important tool to investigate local hemodynamics and its possible association with atherosclerosis genesis and progressions, to plan patient-specific interventions and to design and evaluate vascular devices. The combination of CFD and medical imaging allows, in fact, to quantify a variety of descriptors that would be difficult to be measured in vivo, with a spatial and temporal resolution unreachable with other clinical methodology in a patient specific manner. However, the accuracy of CFD predictions is strongly influenced by modelling assumptions which introduce sources of uncertainty. An example is represented by the inflow boundary conditions (BCs) which starts from in vivo flow rate estimation depending on the method used and may provide different flow rate values.
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the method used to extract the inflow rate value from the patient influenced the CFD results, in terms of distribution and values of the main wall shear stress (WSS) based descriptors
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