title: Rapid Virtual Stenting for Intracranial Aneurysms.
abstract: The rupture of Intracranial Aneurysms is the most severe form of stroke with high rates of mortality and disability. One of its primary treatments is to use stent or Flow Diverter to divert the blood flow away from the IA in a minimal invasive manner. To optimize such treatments, it is desirable to provide an automatic tool for virtual stenting before its actual implantation. In this paper, we propose a novel method, called ball-sweeping, for rapid virtual stenting. Our method sweeps a maximum inscribed sphere through the aneurysmal region of the vessel and directly generates a stent surface touching the vessel wall without needing to iteratively grow a deformable stent surface. Our resulting stent mesh has guaranteed smoothness and variable pore density to achieve an enhanced occlusion performance. Comparing to existing methods, our technique is computationally much more efficient.
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo.
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo.
authors.forename: Danyang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo.
authors.forename: Zihe
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo.
authors.forename: Xiangyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo.
authors.forename: Nikhil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Paliwal
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo.
authors.forename: Jianping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan.
authors.forename: Jason J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Corso
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo.
authors.forename: Jinhui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu