Abstract
Aneurysms are abnormal dilations in the arterial wall and predominantly occur in the aorta and in the cerebral vasculature. The aortic aneurysm is predominantly found in the infrarenal abdominal region and the cerebral aneurysms generally occur in or near the circle of Willis. There is considerable interest in understanding the mechanism underlying aneurysm growth, diagnosing their severity or propensity to rupture, and developing endovascular implants to treat the same. Biomechanical simulations are being employed to improve our understanding of factors that trigger aneurysms and mechanisms for growth/rupture of the lesions. In this chapter, studies on reconstruction of the three-dimensional geometry of the aneurysms, material modeling of the arterial wall and aneurysm components, and biomechanical analyses toward prediction of potential rupture are discussed.
Keywords
- Wall Shear Stress
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Cerebral Aneurysm
- Biomechanical Modeling
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Raghavan, M.L., Vorp, D.A. (2010). Biomechanical Modeling of Aneurysms. In: Chandran, K., Udaykumar, H., Reinhardt, J. (eds) Image-Based Computational Modeling of the Human Circulatory and Pulmonary Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7350-4_8
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