Rui Fan1, Dalin Tang2,3, Jing Yao4, Chun Yang5, Di Xu4
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.99, No.6, pp. 491-508, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.099.491
Abstract Identifying ventricle material properties and its infarct area after heart attack noninvasively is of great important in clinical applications. An echo-based computational modeling approach was proposed to investigate left ventricle (LV) mechanical properties and stress conditions using patient-specific data. Echo data was acquired from one healthy volunteer (male, age: 58) and a male patient (age: 60) who had an acute inferior myocardial infarction one week before echo image acquisition. Standard echocardiograms were obtained using an ultrasound machine (E9, GE Mechanical Systems, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) with a 3V probe and data were segmented for model construction. Finite… More >