Three-dimensional cardiac computational modelling: methods, features and applications

A Lopez-Perez, R Sebastian, JM Ferrero - Biomedical engineering online, 2015 - Springer
The combination of computational models and biophysical simulations can help to interpret
an array of experimental data and contribute to the understanding, diagnosis and treatment …

Patient-specific modeling of dyssynchronous heart failure: a case study

J Aguado-Sierra, A Krishnamurthy, C Villongco… - Progress in biophysics …, 2011 - Elsevier
The development and clinical use of patient-specific models of the heart is now a feasible
goal. Models have the potential to aid in diagnosis and support decision-making in clinical …

Patient-specific models of cardiac biomechanics

A Krishnamurthy, CT Villongco, J Chuang… - Journal of computational …, 2013 - Elsevier
Patient-specific models of cardiac function have the potential to improve diagnosis and
management of heart disease by integrating medical images with heterogeneous clinical …

Second‐order motion‐compensated spin echo diffusion tensor imaging of the human heart

CT Stoeck, C von Deuster, M Genet… - Magnetic resonance …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Myocardial microstructure has been challenging to probe in vivo. Spin echo–based
diffusion‐weighted sequences allow for single‐shot acquisitions but are highly sensitive to …

In vivo diffusion tensor MRI of the human heart: reproducibility of breath‐hold and navigator‐based approaches

S Nielles‐Vallespin, C Mekkaoui… - Magnetic resonance …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to implement a quantitative in vivo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging
(DTI) technique that was robust, reproducible, and feasible to perform in patients with …

Human atlas of the cardiac fiber architecture: study on a healthy population

H Lombaert, JM Peyrat, P Croisille… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cardiac fibers, as well as their local arrangement in laminar sheets, have a complex spatial
variation of their orientation that has an important role in mechanical and electrical cardiac …

Generating fibre orientation maps in human heart models using Poisson interpolation

J Wong, E Kuhl - Computer methods in biomechanics and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Smoothly varying muscle fibre orientations in the heart are critical to its electrical and
mechanical function. From detailed histological studies and diffusion tensor imaging, we …

Computational modeling of the human atrial anatomy and electrophysiology

O Dössel, MW Krueger, FM Weber, M Wilhelms… - Medical & biological …, 2012 - Springer
This review article gives a comprehensive survey of the progress made in computational
modeling of the human atria during the last 10 years. Modeling the anatomy has emerged …

Image-based estimation of ventricular fiber orientations for personalized modeling of cardiac electrophysiology

F Vadakkumpadan, H Arevalo… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technological limitations pose a major challenge to acquisition of myocardial fiber
orientations for patient-specific modeling of cardiac (dys) function and assessment of …

Spin echo versus stimulated echo diffusion tensor imaging of the in vivo human heart

C von Deuster, CT Stoeck, M Genet… - Magnetic resonance …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To compare signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) efficiency and diffusion tensor metrics of
cardiac diffusion tensor mapping using acceleration‐compensated spin‐echo (SE) and …