SimVascular: an open source pipeline for cardiovascular simulation

A Updegrove, NM Wilson, J Merkow, H Lan… - Annals of biomedical …, 2017 - Springer
Patient-specific cardiovascular simulation has become a paradigm in cardiovascular
research and is emerging as a powerful tool in basic, translational and clinical research. In …

Patient-specific inverse modeling of in vivo cardiovascular mechanics with medical image-derived kinematics as input data: Concepts, methods, and applications

JH Bracamonte, SK Saunders, JS Wilson, UT Truong… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inverse modeling approaches in cardiovascular medicine are a collection of methodologies
that can provide non-invasive patient-specific estimations of tissue properties, mechanical …

Boundary conditions investigation to improve computer simulation of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in hydrocephalus patients

S Gholampour, N Fatouraee - Communications biology, 2021 - nature.com
Three-D head geometrical models of eight healthy subjects and 11 hydrocephalus patients
were built using their CINE phase-contrast MRI data and used for computer simulations …

A re-engineered software interface and workflow for the open-source simvascular cardiovascular modeling package

H Lan, A Updegrove, NM Wilson… - Journal of …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Patient-specific simulation plays an important role in cardiovascular disease research,
diagnosis, surgical planning and medical device design, as well as education in …

A method to quantify mechanobiologic forces during zebrafish cardiac development using 4-D light sheet imaging and computational modeling

V Vedula, J Lee, H Xu, CCJ Kuo, TK Hsiai… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Blood flow and mechanical forces in the ventricle are implicated in cardiac development and
trabeculation. However, the mechanisms of mechanotransduction remain elusive. This is …

Evolution of hemodynamic forces in the pulmonary tree with progressively worsening pulmonary arterial hypertension in pediatric patients

W Yang, M Dong, M Rabinovitch, FP Chan… - … and modeling in …, 2019 - Springer
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by pulmonary vascular remodeling
resulting in right ventricular (RV) dysfunction and ultimately RV failure. Mechanical stimuli …

Enhanced 4D flow MRI-based CFD with adaptive mesh refinement for flow dynamics assessment in coarctation of the aorta

L Shahid, J Rice, H Berhane, C Rigsby… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract 4D Flow MRI is a diagnostic tool that can visualize and quantify patient-specific
hemodynamics and help interventionalists optimize treatment strategies for repairing …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal variations in hemodynamic forces initiate cardiac trabeculation

J Lee, V Vedula, KI Baek, J Chen, JJ Hsu, Y Ding… - JCI insight, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hemodynamic shear force has been implicated as modulating Notch signaling–mediated
cardiac trabeculation. Whether the spatiotemporal variations in wall shear stress (WSS) …

[HTML][HTML] Model order reduction of flow based on a modular geometrical approximation of blood vessels

L Pegolotti, MR Pfaller, AL Marsden… - Computer methods in …, 2021 - Elsevier
We are interested in a reduced order method for the efficient simulation of blood flow in
arteries. The blood dynamics is modeled by means of the incompressible Navier–Stokes …

[HTML][HTML] Contractile and hemodynamic forces coordinate Notch1b-mediated outflow tract valve formation

JJ Hsu, V Vedula, KI Baek, C Chen, J Chen, MI Chou… - JCI insight, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Biomechanical forces and endothelial-mesenchymal transition (EndoMT) are known to
mediate valvulogenesis. However, the relative contributions of myocardial contractile and …