WALL SHEAR STRESS NUMERICAL STUDY OF PATIENT-SPECIFIC LEFT CORONARY BIFURCATION BASED ON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

S.I.S. Pinto (Author) FEUP; Campos, JBLM (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mechanics and Materials in Design - M2D2015

Pages: 1585-1594

6th International Conference on Mechanics and Materials in Design

Ponta Delgada/Azores, 26-30 July 2015

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FOS: Engineering and technology > Mechanical engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-00K-MZ8

Abstract (EN): The present work focuses the study of wall shear stress-based descriptors: time averaged wall shear stress (TAWSS), oscillating shear index (OSI) and relative residence time (RRT), of sketch geometries of the left coronary artery (LCA): one healthy case, one disease case with 30% obstruction in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and other disease case with 50% obstruction in the LAD. Moreover, these parameters were studied for a patient-specific LCA based on computed tomography (CT) - a healthy case. Low TAWSS, high OSI and high RRT let know potential zones for atherosclerosis appearance and are in agreement in the same locations. In the sketch geometries, the probable zones of atherosclerosis appearance are in the bifurcation and before/after the obstruction. In the patient-specific LCA, atherosclerosis can appear not only in the bifurcation but also in protruding parts.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10