Conference Agenda

ENDOTHELIAL SHEAR STRESS IN VASCULAR DISEASE: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE PLATO’S CAVE

U. Morbiducci

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

DEVELOPMENT OF AN EX VIVO PORCINE AORTIC ANEURYSM MODEL USING LOCALISED ELASTIN DEGRADATION

M. D. Laffey^1,2, B. Tornifoglio^1,2, C. Lally^1,2,3

¹Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland; ²Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland; ³Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (AMBER), Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Trinity College Dublin, D02 W05 Dublin, Ireland

AORTIC ANEURYSMS AND ARCH CONFIGURATION: PATIENT-SPECIFIC FLOW STUDIES

K. Bates¹, J. Pressacco², K. Lachapelle³, R. L. Leask¹

¹McGill University Department of Chemical Engineering, Canada; ²Cardiac Imaging Division, McGill University Health Centre, Canada; ³Division of Cardiac Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Canada

SPECIMEN WIDTH AFFECTS VASCULAR TISSUE INTEGRITY OF IN-VITRO CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES

M. Alloisio¹, J. J. Wolffs², T. C. Gasser¹

¹KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

QUANTIFYING THE MOTION OF PATIENT-SPECIFIC WALL AND INLET DYNAMICS OF ASCENDING THORACIC AORTIC ANEURYSMS

R. Valente¹, A. Mourato^1,2, M. Brito^1,2, J. Xavier^1,2, S. Avril³, A. Tomás⁴, J. Fragata^4,5

¹UNIDEMI, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal; ²Laboratório Associado de Sistemas Inteligentes, LASI, Portugal; ³École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, University of Lyon, Inserm, Sainbiose U1059, France; ⁴Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Santa Marta Hospital, Portugal; ⁵Department of Surgery and Human Morphology, NOVA Medical School, Portugal

TEVAR VERSUS OPEN AORTIC ARCH INTERVENTION IN EX VIVO PERFUSED HUMAN THORACIC AORTAS

M. Yusefi¹, E. Agrafiotis², G. Sommer¹, H. Mächler³, G. A. Holzapfel^1,4

¹Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology, Austria; ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, USA; ³Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Austria; ⁴Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

LARGE-SCALE FLOW COHERENCE IN THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE ASCENDING AORTA: A 4D FLOW MRI STUDY

K. Calò¹, A. Guala², V. Mazzi¹, M. Lodi Rizzini¹, L. Dux-Santoy², J. Rodriguez-Palomars², S. Scarsoglio¹, L. Ridolfi³, D. Gallo¹, U. Morbiducci¹

¹PoliToBIOMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino,Turin, Italy; ²Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca, Barcelona, Spain; ³PoliToBIOMed Lab, Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino,Turin, Italy

ULTRASOUND-BASED ANALYSIS OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM GROWTH: CO-EVOLUTION OF STRAIN, CURVATURE AND THROMBUS

M. Thirugnanasambandam¹, B. Zikken¹, E. Maas^1,2, A. Nievergeld^1,2, M. van Sambeek^1,2, R. Lopata¹

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

EX-VIVO BIOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PORCINE CAVA VEIN

E. Luzietti, M. Schembri, A. Pascaner, F. Auricchio, M. Conti, A. Caimi

1. Civil Engineering and Architecture Department, Pavia University, Pavia, Italy

FALSE LUMEN HEMODYNAMICS IN AORTIC DISSECTION-AN IN VITRO STUDY USING PIV AND PATIENT-SPECIFIC FLEXIBLE PHANTOMS

S. Balabani^1,2, Q. Li^1,2, V. Diaz^1,2

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCL, UK; ²Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, UCL, UK

AN IN-VIVO IMAGE-BASED CHARACTERIZATION OF THE KINEMATICS AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE AORTA

F. Dell'Agnello^1,2, E. Vignali¹, S. Guidi^1,2, F. Cademartiri³, S. Celi¹

¹BioCardioLab, Bioengeneering Unit, Fondazione Monasterio, Italy; ²Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy; ³Clinical Imaging Department, Fondazione Monasterio, Italy