Scientific Visualization Gallery
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| Human arterial tree L Grinberg,* T Anor,† JR Madsen,† A Yakhot‡ and GE Karniadakis* *Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, †Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and ‡The Pearlstone Center for Aeronautical Engineering Studies, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, BeerSheva, Israel Three-dimensional model of major vessels and bifurcations of the human arterial tree reconstructed with gOREK from a set of computed tomography (CT), digital subtraction angiography CT and magnetic reso- nance angiography images. Colours represent different parts of the model. Left, aorta and adjacent arteries; right top, cranial arterial network; ICA, internal carotid artery; ECA, external carotid artery; CCA, common carotid artery.; right bottom Cranial arterial network. The geometrical model was reconstructed from MRA and digital subtraction angiography computed tomography images. Smoothing of the surface boundary was done with the technique described by Volino and Magnenat- Thalmann. |