Amirtahà Taebi1, Nursultan Janibek2, Roger Goldman3, Rex Pillai3, Catherine T Vu3, Emilie Roncali4. 1. Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi. Electronic address: ataebi@abe.msstate.edu. 2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California. 3. Department of Radiology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California. 4. Department of Radiology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To model the effect of the injection location on the distribution of yttrium-90 (90Y) microspheres in the liver during radioembolization using computational simulation and to determine the potential effects of radial movements of the catheter tip. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Numerical studies were conducted using images from a representative patient with hepatocellular carcinoma. The right hepatic artery (RHA) was segmented from contrast-enhanced cone-beam computed tomography scans. The blood flow was investigated in the trunk of the RHA using numerical simulations for 6 injection position scenarios at 2 sites located at a distance of approximately 5 and 20 mm upstream of the first bifurcation (RHA diameters of approximately 4.6 mm). The 90Y delivery to downstream vessels was calculated from the simulated hepatic artery hemodynamics. RESULTS: Varying the injection location along the RHA and across the vessel cross-section resulted in different simulated microsphere distributions in the downstream vascular bed. When the catheter tip was 5 mm upstream of the bifurcation, 90Y distribution in the downstream branches varied by as much as 53% with a 1.5-mm radial movement of the tip. However, the catheter radial movement had a weaker effect on the microsphere distribution when the injection plane was farther from the first bifurcation (20 mm), with a maximum delivery variation of 9% to a downstream branch. CONCLUSIONS: An injection location far from bifurcations is recommended to minimize the effect of radial movements of the catheter tip on the microsphere distribution.
PURPOSE: To model the effect of the injection location on the distribution of yttrium-90 (90Y) microspheres in the liver during radioembolization using computational simulation and to determine the potential effects of radial movements of the catheter tip. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Numerical studies were conducted using images from a representative patient with hepatocellular carcinoma. The right hepatic artery (RHA) was segmented from contrast-enhanced cone-beam computed tomography scans. The blood flow was investigated in the trunk of the RHA using numerical simulations for 6 injection position scenarios at 2 sites located at a distance of approximately 5 and 20 mm upstream of the first bifurcation (RHA diameters of approximately 4.6 mm). The 90Y delivery to downstream vessels was calculated from the simulated hepatic artery hemodynamics. RESULTS: Varying the injection location along the RHA and across the vessel cross-section resulted in different simulated microsphere distributions in the downstream vascular bed. When the catheter tip was 5 mm upstream of the bifurcation, 90Y distribution in the downstream branches varied by as much as 53% with a 1.5-mm radial movement of the tip. However, the catheter radial movement had a weaker effect on the microsphere distribution when the injection plane was farther from the first bifurcation (20 mm), with a maximum delivery variation of 9% to a downstream branch. CONCLUSIONS: An injection location far from bifurcations is recommended to minimize the effect of radial movements of the catheter tip on the microsphere distribution.
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