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Nan Xiao
Bio-X Bioengineering Graduate Fellow 2007
Professor Charles Taylor (Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering)
Computational simulations of blood flow dynamics (hemodynamics) enable detailed, quantitative investigation of the role of hemodynamic factors in vascular disease. In order to construct realistic, patient-specific models of blood flow, data from non-invasive measurements must be used to improve the reliability of the simulation.
Currently, the goal of the Taylor laboratory is to couple vessel wall-motion data from sequences of CT images with a 3-D computational model incorporating the fluid-structure interaction between blood and blood vessel in order to minimize the differences between observation and simulation. Accomplishing this goal will bring them one step closer to producing realistic, personalized blood flow models that may have important applications in the treatment of vascular disease. |
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