Modelling the human cardiac fluid mechanics

• Main Author: Oertel, Herbert (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2005
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; pathological ventricle defects; Computer Fluid Dynamics; in vivo; left human ventricle; MRI tomography
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

We present a virtual heart model simulating the flow in the left human ventricle and in the aorta. Because of the lack of in vivo structure data of the human ventricle, the active ventricle movement is given by a time-dependent ventricle model that is derived from in vivo image data of a nuclear spi...