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2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

DOI: 10.1109/embc.2014.6944771

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Pressure mapping from flow imaging: Enhancing computation of the viscous term through velocity reconstruction in near-wall regions

Journal article published in 2014 by Fabrizio Donati, David A. Nordsletten, Nicolas P. Smith, Pablo Lamata ORCID
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Abstract

Although being small compared to inertial acceleration, viscous component of the pressure gradient has recently emerged as a potential biomarker for aortic disease conditions including aortic valve stenosis. However, as it involves the computation of second order derivatives and viscous dissipation is locally higher in the near-wall region of the larger vessels, where the lowest local signal-to-noise ratios are encountered, the estimation process from medical image velocity data through mathematical models is highly challenging. We propose a fully automatic framework to recover the laminar viscous pressure gradient through reconstruction of the velocity vector field in the aortic boundary region. An in-silico study is conducted and the pressure drop is computed solving a Poisson problem on pressure using both a reconstructed and non-reconstructed velocity profile near the vessel walls, showing a global improvement of performance with the enhanced method.