How patient-specific do internal carotid artery inflow rates need to be for computational fluid dynamics of cerebral aneurysms?
Mehdi NajafiNicole Mariantonia CancelliereOlivier BrinaPierre BouillotMaria I VargasBenedicte Ma DelattreVitor M PereiraDavid A SteinmanPublished in: Journal of neurointerventional surgery (2020)
Aneurysm CFD demonstrates the ability to stratify cases by nominal hemodynamic 'risk' factors when employing an age- and vascular-territory-specific recipe for generalized inflow rates. Qavg has a greater influence than waveform shape, suggesting some improvement could be achieved by including measurement of patient-specific Qavg into aneurysm imaging protocols.