Conference Agenda

FROM MECHANOBIOLOGY OF AORTIC SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS TO IMPROVED PROGNOSIS OF THORACIC AORTIC ANEURYSMS

S. Avril

Mines Saint-Etienne, France

THE IMPACT OF 4D-FLOW MRI-DERIVED INLET CONDITIONS IN FLOW SIMULATIONS OF ANEURYSMAL TYPE-B AORTIC DISSECTION

C. Stokes^1,2, D. Ahmed³, N. Lind⁴, F. Haupt⁴, D. Becker⁵, V. Muthurangu⁶, H. von Tengg-Kobligk⁴, G. Papadakis³, S. Balabani^1,2, V. Diaz-Zuccarini^1,2

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, UK; ²Wellcome-EPSRC Centre for Interventional Surgical Sciences, London, UK; ³Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, UK; ⁴Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Pediatric Radiology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland; ⁵Centre for Translational Cardiovascular Imaging, University College London; ⁶Clinic of Vascular Surgery, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland

MERGING 4D ULTRASOUND AND MODIFIED VIRTUAL FIELDS METHOD TO REGIONALLY CHARACTERIZE ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS

M. Thirugnanasambandam^1,2, E. J Maas^1,2, A. H M Nievergeld^1,2, M. R H M van Sambeek^1,2, S. Avril³, R. G P Lopata¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands; ²Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, the Netherlands; ³Ecole des MINES St. Etienne, France

ANALYZING ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM VESSEL, LUMEN AND THROMBUS GROWTH USING 3D+T ULTRASOUND

A. Nievergeld^1,2, E. Maas^1,2, J. Fonken^1,2, M. van Sambeek², R. Lopata¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The; ²Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Netherlands

RISK ASSESSMENT OF ASCENDING AORTIC ANEURYSMS USING PROBABILISTIC MATERIAL PARAMETERS AND IN VIVO THICKNESS

S. Dreesen, K. Vander Linden, N. Famaey

KU Leuven, Belgium