European Projects
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@neurIST Top
@neurIST is focussed on cerebral aneurysms and intends to provide an integrated decision support system to assess the risk of aneurysm rupture in patients and to optimize their treatments.
IDAC's main involvement is with @neuEndo: advanced virtual stenting and coiling.
@neuEndo involves developing computational tools to optimise and customise the design of endovascular devices.
These tools simulate the structural, haemodynamic and biological responses of the body to the laying down of stents and coils. This serves not only the manufacturer in the design of these implants, but also the medical end-user in the planning of an intervention.
Additionally, the platform includes advanced numerical-simulation tools to predict the occurrence of device-induced thrombosis and drug elution processes.
GEMSS Top
As the Internet revolutionised access to information, the Grid will revolutionise accessibility to applications. GEMSS demonstrates how Grid technologies can be used to transform healthcare and enable Europe to lead that transformation. The GEMSS test-bed renders accessible a multitude of medical computing and resource services in a clinical environment. It provides access to new tools for improved diagnosis, operative planning and surgical procedures in order to create a new way for improved health care.
Software developed under this project were also targeted at
- Maxillo-facial surgery simulation: a virtual pre-operative planning space.
- Neuro-surgery support: prediction of the brain-shift during neuro-surgery.
- Radio-surgery simulation: improved treatment planning for cancer destruction.
- Inhaled drug delivery simulation: virtual drug delivery to the lung.
- Cardio-vascular system simulation: simulation of the entire cardio-vascular system for improved treatment plans and surgical procedures.
- Advanced Medical Image Reconstruction: Fully 3D reconstruction of SPECT images for improved quality.
Project Partners
- C&C Research Laboratories ,NEC Europe Ltd., St. Augustin, Germany (co-ordinating partner)
- CFX Ltd. ,UK
- CRID, Research Centre for Computer and Law , University of Namur, Belgium
- IT-Innovation ,University of Southampton, UK
- Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Eng. , University of Sheffield, UK
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust , Sheffield, UK (subcontractor).
- ASD Advanced Simulation & Design GmbH , Rostock, Germany
- Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Physics , University of Vienna, Austria
IDAC's involvement was with the delivery of cardiovascular analysis across the Internet. Computational fluid dynamics is used to calculate the blood flow in a full 3D model of the section of artery of interest. The properties of the peripheral circulatory are included by coupling compartment systems using the Westerhof model to the 3D model. Using this simulation tool, the benefit of various surgical procedures, such as arterial stenting, grafts and valves, can be assessed in terms of the improvement to the pattern of blood flow. This is facilitated using a MATLAB interface.
BloodSim Top
The Bloodsim project is a project designed to simplify the application of F.E. analysis to stent design. The software automatically prepares either a 2D or 3D Finite Element model (as specified by the user) in ANSYS and assigns material properties. Crimping and deployment loads are applied and solved sequentially. Residual stresses are thus calculated and stored. Cycling due to blood pressure variations is then simulated and alternating and mean stresses are thus calculated. Post processing is carried out automatically and relevant data is presented automatically in a summary report. Input and output for each job is automatically recorded in a database allowing easy reference to completed jobs.