Actas de congresos
Three-dimensional modeling and highly refined mesh generation of the aorta artery and its tunics
Fecha
2013-04-08Registro en:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, v. 410, n. 1, 2013.
1742-6588
1742-6596
10.1088/1742-6596/410/1/012169
WOS:000315409700169
2-s2.0-84875749836
2139053814879312
Autor
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP)
Zhejiang University
Institución
Resumen
This paper describes strategies and techniques to perform modeling and automatic mesh generation of the aorta artery and its tunics (adventitia, media and intima walls), using open source codes. The models were constructed in the Blender package and Python scripts were used to export the data necessary for the mesh generation in TetGen. The strategies proposed are able to provide meshes of complicated and irregular volumes, with a large number of mesh elements involved (12,000,000 tetrahedrons approximately). These meshes can be used to perform computational simulations by Finite Element Method (FEM). © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.