[MOTRICO project: the mesh generation problem of the human left coronary artery bifurcation].
The MOTRICO project plans the development of an advanced environment that will offer computer assistance for cardiac therapy and diagnosis, which would be useful in the hemodynamics units of those hospitals that have access to the instrumental techniques of Angiography and intravascular Ultrasounds. The initial work presented in this paper will describe modeling and finite element mesh generation of an idealized model of the human left coronary artery bifurcation. The computational geometric model has been developed on the basis of real anatomical information.
D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D020342:Finite Element Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D012986:Software Validation; D013526:Surgical Mesh