Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the
western world. In the last three decades, fluid dynamics investigations have been an …

Coronary stents have revolutionized the treatment of coronary artery disease. Improvement
in clinical outcomes requires detailed evaluation of the performance of stent biomechanics …

Congenital heart defect interventions may benefit from the fabrication of patient-specific
vascular grafts because of the wide array of anatomies present in children with …

This study is part of a FDA-sponsored project to evaluate the use and limitations of
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in assessing blood flow parameters related to medical …

Although blood-contacting medical devices are used widely, blood clot formation
(thrombosis) leads to device failure and potentially catastrophic adverse thrombotic events …

High-fidelity patient-specific modeling of cardiovascular flows and hemodynamics is
challenging. Direct blood flow measurement inside the body with in-vivo measurement …

Abstract 3D printing as a means of fabrication has seen increasing applications in medicine
in the last decade, becoming invaluable for cardiovascular applications. This rapidly …

Restenosis following stent implantation diminishes the procedure's efficacy influencing long-
term clinical outcomes. Stent-based drug delivery emerged a decade ago as an effective …

In this study, a technique for high-frame-rate ultrasound imaging velocimetry (UIV) is
extended first to provide more robust quantitative flow velocity mapping using ensemble …

Abstract The US Food and Drug Administration recently hosted an interlaboratory study to
assess the suitability and methodology of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for …