Investigation on a Relationship Between Hemodynamics and Wall-Thinning in an Unruptured Human Cerebral Aneurysm

Autor: Yoshifumi Hayashi, Hirotaka Yoshida, Yoshifumi Okada, Sara Takahashi, Toshiro Kubo, Yuki Iwabuchi, Yasutaka Tobe, Momoko Yamanashi, Kazutoshi Nishitani, Takanobu Yagi, Shin Hiraguchi, Kiyotaka Iwasaki, Mitsuo Umezu, Michihito Sugawara, Shigemi Kitahara
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Parts A and B.
DOI: 10.1115/sbc2012-80892
Popis: Recent studies of cerebral aneurysms are held using the blood flow simulation with patient-specific luminal geometries. In the study of development of cerebral aneurysms, wall shear stress (WSS) is focused as one of the key factors1–2. But the answer to the relationship between the extension of aneurysm and the theory of low WSS and high WSS still remains a question. One reason this question remains unsolved is because the current research about the cerebral aneurysms are held only using the vascular geometry developed from the medical images. From the intra-operative observation of cerebral aneurysms, the appearance of the cerebral aneurysm is not unified. Certain parts of the cerebral aneurysm have thin-walled structures where the blood flow of the aneurysm can be observed through the aneurysm wall. These differences in the wall structures cannot be predicted from the medical images. The purpose of this study is to see the relationship between hemodynamic patterns and thin-walled structure in human cerebral aneurysms.Copyright © 2012 by ASME
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