... (SHARCNET:www.sharcnet.ca), Compute/Calcul Canada and the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL:www.hpcvl.org), Queen’s University site. References 1 Norman , P. E. , and Powell , J. T. , 2010 , “ Site Specificity of Aneurysmal Disease ,” Circulation , 121 ( 4 ), pp. 560 – 568...

...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...

... award CNS-0619926 for computer ressources, INRIA associated team grant for travel support, the Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease, France-Stanford Center and Fondation Leducq for the support of G. Troianowski and Dr. I. Vignon-Clementel. The authors are thankful to Dr. F. Shakib...

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... this success and the clinical view of CoA as a simple disease, long-term results have revealed decreased life expectancy and substantial morbidity in the form of hypertension, early coronary artery disease (CAD), stroke, and aneurysm formation. Several decades ago, O’Rourke and Cartmill suggested...

... 2011 17 08 2011 11 10 2011 11 10 2011 biomechanics diseases muscle physiological models stress relaxation viscoelasticity viscosity Experiments were performed on single fibers from the 5 th toe of the mouse extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle (129/Sv...

...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...

... characteristics of the aneurysm like location, size, and shape. None of the available treatment options can be really deemed satisfactory yet. biomedical equipment brain models computational fluid dynamics diseases haemodynamics porosity stents Dorland Medical Dictionary defines a cerebral...

...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...

... Viscosity of Blood on Flows in a Diseased Arterial Vessel. Part 1: Steady Flows ,” Biorheology 0006-355X , 28 , pp. 241 – 262 . Cole , J. S. , Watterson , J. K. , and O’Reilly , M. J. G. , 2002 , “ Numerical Investigation of the Haemodynamics at a Patched Arterial Bypass...

... 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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... studies will implement this modeling method to investigate the role that mechanical stress may play in progression of knee OA through estimation of articular cartilage contact area. 13 09 2010 13 10 2010 02 11 2010 23 12 2010 23 12 2010 biomedical MRI diseases...

... biomechanics blood vessels cardiovascular system diseases surgery vascular mechanics stress-mediated growth and remodeling constrained mixture model endoleak An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a localized dilation of the aorta below the diaphragm. The rupture potential of AAAs increases...