Mind the gap: impact of computational fluid dynamics solution strategy on prediction of intracranial aneurysm hemodynamics and rupture status indicators

K Valen-Sendstad… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Computational fluid dynamics has become a popular tool
for studying intracranial aneurysm hemodynamics, demonstrating success for retrospectively …

The Computational Fluid Dynamics Rupture Challenge 2013—Phase I: prediction of rupture status in intracranial aneurysms

G Janiga, P Berg, S Sugiyama… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Rupture risk assessment for intracranial aneurysms
remains challenging, and risk factors, including wall shear stress, are discussed …

Local hemodynamics at the rupture point of cerebral aneurysms determined by computational fluid dynamics analysis

S Omodaka, S Sugiyama, T Inoue… - Cerebrovascular …, 2012 - karger.com
Background: Cerebral aneurysms carry a high risk of rupture and so present a major threat
to the patient's life. Accurate criteria for predicting aneurysm rupture are important for …

Narrowing the expertise gap for predicting intracranial aneurysm hemodynamics: impact of solver numerics versus mesh and time-step resolution

MO Khan, K Valen-Sendstad… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Recent high-resolution computational fluid dynamics
studies have uncovered the presence of laminar flow instabilities and possible transitional or …

CFD: computational fluid dynamics or confounding factor dissemination? The role of hemodynamics in intracranial aneurysm rupture risk assessment

J Xiang, VM Tutino, KV Snyder… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
Image-based computational fluid dynamics holds a prominent position in the evaluation of
intracranial aneurysms, especially as a promising tool to stratify rupture risk. Current …

Current status of computational fluid dynamics for cerebral aneurysms: the clinician's perspective

GKC Wong, WS Poon - Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 2011 - Elsevier
The ultimate management goal for unruptured intracranial aneurysms is to select the
aneurysms at risk of rupture and treat them. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) utilizes …

Characterization of cerebral aneurysms for assessing risk of rupture by using patient-specific computational hemodynamics models

JR Cebral, MA Castro, JE Burgess… - American Journal …, 2005 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Hemodynamic factors are thought to play an important
role in the initiation, growth, and rupture of cerebral aneurysms. This report describes a pilot …

Computational fluid dynamics in brain aneurysms

DM Sforza, CM Putman… - International journal for …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Because of its ability to deal with any geometry, image‐based computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) has been progressively used to investigate the role of hemodynamics in the …

Computational hemodynamics framework for the analysis of cerebral aneurysms

F Mut, R Löhner, A Chien, S Tateshima… - … journal for numerical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing the risk of rupture of intracranial aneurysms is important for clinicians because the
natural rupture risk can be exceeded by the small but significant risk carried by current …

Influence of intracranial aneurysm-to-parent vessel size ratio on hemodynamics and implication for rupture: results from a virtual experimental study

M Tremmel, S Dhar, EI Levy, J Mocco, H Meng - Neurosurgery, 2009 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: The effectiveness of intracranial aneurysm (IA) size as a predictor for rupture
has been debated. We recently performed a retrospective analysis of IA morphology and …