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4D Flow MRI is a specific type of MRI sequences, which allows to image the velocity field of moving fluids such as blood. Therefore it represents an interesting opportunity for clinicians to detect and follow the evolution of cardiovascular diseases. However, this technique suffers from some limitations, which question its accuracy and efficiency to measure relevant hemodynamics quantities. Although CFD accuracy depends on model assumptions, it also enables to bypass some of the limitations inherent to the MRI process in the way that it provides higher spatio-temporal resolutions and gives access to instantaneous and derived quantities. Thereby the idea of this Application Challenge is to use 4D Flow MRI and CFD to develop a reproducible method to enable the comparison of the two modalities. | |||
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Revision as of 08:46, 26 July 2021
A pulsatile 3D flow relevant to thoracic hemodynamics: CFD - 4D MRI comparison
Application Challenge AC7-04 © copyright ERCOFTAC 2021
Description
Introduction
The objective of the current Application Challenge is to provide a well-controlled environment and procedure to enable comparison between CFD and 4D Flow MRI. The experiment is designed to remove most classical sources of uncertainties inherent to the in vivo MRI such as moving deformable walls or undefined blood properties. The experimental MRI setup is shown on figure 1, where the phantom presents topological complexities analogous to the cardiovascular system (Fig. 2). Large Eddy Simulation (LES) has been conducted on the same geometry. Both the experiment and the simulation have been performed under a sinusoidal pulsatile flow, with flow conditions in the laminar-turbulent transition regime similar to what one can found in the cardiovascular system.
Figure 1: Schematic experimental setup
The methods described in this Application Challenge are mainly adopted from Puiseux et al. (2019) [2].
Relevance to Industrial Sector
4D Flow MRI is a specific type of MRI sequences, which allows to image the velocity field of moving fluids such as blood. Therefore it represents an interesting opportunity for clinicians to detect and follow the evolution of cardiovascular diseases. However, this technique suffers from some limitations, which question its accuracy and efficiency to measure relevant hemodynamics quantities. Although CFD accuracy depends on model assumptions, it also enables to bypass some of the limitations inherent to the MRI process in the way that it provides higher spatio-temporal resolutions and gives access to instantaneous and derived quantities. Thereby the idea of this Application Challenge is to use 4D Flow MRI and CFD to develop a reproducible method to enable the comparison of the two modalities.
Design or Assessment Parameters
Flow Domain Geometry
Flow Physics and Fluid Dynamics Data
Contributed by: Morgane Garreau — University of Montpellier, France
© copyright ERCOFTAC 2021