title: MR image-based geometric and hemodynamic investigation of the right coronary artery with dynamic vessel motion.
abstract: The aim of this study was to develop a fully subject-specific model of the right coronary artery (RCA), including dynamic vessel motion, for computational analysis to assess the effects of cardiac-induced motion on hemodynamics and resulting wall shear stress (WSS). Vascular geometries were acquired in the right coronary artery (RCA) of a healthy volunteer using a navigator-gated interleaved spiral sequence at 14 time points during the cardiac cycle. A high temporal resolution velocity waveform was also acquired in the proximal region. Cardiac-induced dynamic vessel motion was calculated by interpolating the geometries with an active contour model and a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation with fully subject-specific information was carried out using this model. The results showed the expected variation of vessel radius and curvature throughout the cardiac cycle, and also revealed that dynamic motion of the right coronary artery consequent to cardiac motion had significant effects on instantaneous WSS and oscillatory shear index. Subject-specific MRI-based CFD is feasible and, if scan duration could be shortened, this method may have potential as a non-invasive tool to investigate the physiological and pathological role of hemodynamics in human coronary arteries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW72AZ, UK. r.torii@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Ryo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Torii
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Keegan
authors.forename: Nigel B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: Andrew W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Dowsey
authors.forename: Alun D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Guang-Zhong
authors.initials: GZ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: David N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Firmin
authors.forename: Simon A McG
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Thom
authors.forename: X Yun
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001011:Aorta / Q000502:physiology*; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000502:physiology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000502:physiology*; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D009038:Motion; D013314:Stress, Mechanical