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Youbing Yin1, Jiwoong Choi, Eric A Hoffman, Merryn H Tawhai, Ching-Long Lin.
Abstract
We present a novel image-based technique to estimate a subject-specific boundary condition (BC) for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of pulmonary air flow. The information of regional ventilation for an individual is derived by registering two computed tomography (CT) lung datasets and then passed to the CT-resolved airways as the flow BC. The CFD simulations show that the proposed method predicts lobar volume changes consistent with direct image-measured metrics, whereas the other two traditional BCs (uniform velocity or uniform pressure) yield lobar volume changes and regional pressure differences inconsistent with observed physiology. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20483412 PMCID: PMC3034656 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.03.048
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biomech ISSN: 0021-9290 Impact factor: 2.712