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AimaSimul: a software tool to plan stent positioning in peripheral arteries and evaluate the associated fatigue fracture risk

  • Debora Testi
    ,
  • Nigel McFarlane
    ,
  • Hui Wei
    ,
  • Youbing Zhao
    ,
  • Gordon Clapworthy
    ,
  • D. M. Ryan
  • Cineca Consortium of Universities
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Abstract

Vascular stent deployment in peripheral arteries is a medical intervention in which a wire mesh tube is inserted into the artery to provide internal support. However, stents positioned in locations such as the femoral artery are subject to cyclic bending, and are therefore at risk of fatigue fracture. A software tool chain, called AimaSimul, is being implemented to support stent modeling, surgical simulation and risk calculation for surgical planning. In particular, the AimaSimul preoperative planning tool allows clinicians, starting from patient-specific medical images, to interactively assess different stent models and deployment options for the risk of breakage. This paper describes the main functionalities of AimaSimul and, in particular, the stent deployment and deformation.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 09/01/2014

Publication status

Published - 09/01/2014

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781479931637

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/336988
  • Scopus: 84894116541

Host publication title

13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering

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