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FFR quantification in a left coronary artery using a three-element Windkessel model and the non-linear viscoelastic property of blood

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FFR quantification in a left coronary artery using a three-element Windkessel model and the non-linear viscoelastic property of blood
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Article in International Scientific Journal
Year
2022
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A.A. Martins
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Luísa Costa Sousa
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S.I.S. Pinto
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ISSN: 2326-7186
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CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Biomedical enginnering ; Technological sciences > Engineering > Mechanical engineering
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Subject: FFR quantification in a left coronary artery using a three-element Windkessel model and the non-linear viscoelastic property of blood
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Abstract (EN): Atherosclerosis is a cardiovascular disease (CVD) which obstructs blood flow to the heart. The Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) is the gold-standard in assessing the functional significance of an intermediate coronary lesion. The goal of this study is to non-invasively calculate a patient-specific FFR value, using hemodynamic simulations under conditions as realistic as possible, and to compare it with the invasively measured FFR in the hospital. Regarding the methodology, the main novelty of this work is the use of blood’s viscoelastic property in conjunction with a three-element Windkessel model as a pressure boundary condition, in the hemodynamic simulations. No studies were found in the literature taking into account both assumptions simultaneously. The three-element Windkessel model was implemented in the present study through a user-defined function (UDF) in ANSYS® software. This model has three parameters that require estimation. Three estimates were made, based either on the measured blood pressure of the patient-specific case, in the hospital, or on a higher blood pressure. Blood’s viscoelastic property is considered by using the simplified Phan-Thien/Tanner (sPTT) model. The invasively measured FFR is of 0.93. The non-invasive FFR, calculated by using hemodynamic simulations, is of 0.91 in all scenarios for the estimation of the model parameters. This corresponds to a relative error of 2.15% in the FFR value calculation. The non-invasive calculation of the FFR value appears to have low sensitivity to the model’s parameter estimates. Thus, the geometry of the patient’s stenosis appears to be a determining factor in the FFR value calculation
Language: English
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