Heart blood flow simulation: a perspective review

Doost, Siamak N.; Ghista, Dhanjoo; Su, Boyang; Zhong, Liang; Morsi, Yosry S.

doi:10.1186/s12938-016-0224-8

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Table 1 Summary of the published papers that simulate patient-specific LVs

From: Heart blood flow simulation: a perspective review

First author	Year	Geometry				Imaging technique	CFD method^b	Phase^c	Validation results^d	CFD Solver
		Condition^a	Type	Number of case studies
		Condition^a	Type	Normal	Patient
Doost [18]	2016	Normal	3D	1	–	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	ANSYS-fluent
Su [19]	2016	Normal and PAH	3D	1	1	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	ANSYS-fluent
Nguyen[20]	2015	Normal person and patients with diastolic dysfunction	3D	4	2	MRI	GP	FCC	Blood flow pattern is qualitatively validated using echocardiography PIV	In-house CFD solver
Muehlhausen [21]	2015	Normal	3D	1	–	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	Coupled fluent, MpCCI, and Abaqus
Su [22]	2014	HCM	3D	1	1	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	ANSYS-fluent 14
Su [23]	2014	Normal	2D	1	–	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	ANSYS-fluent 14
Khalafvand [13]	2014	Before and after SVR and normal	3D	1	2	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	ANSYS-fluent 12
Moosavi [2]	2014	Normal	3D	1	–	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	ADINA v8.6
Seo [12]	2014	Normal	3D	1	–	CT scan	GP	FCC	N/A	N/A
Chnafa [14]	2014	Not specified	3D	1	–	MRI	GP,LES	FCC	N/A	YALES2BIO
Corsini [16]	2014	SV	3D	1	–	MRI	Multi-scale	FCC	The flow obtained from the multi-scale analysis is validated using the clinical MR and echo-Doppler data	Simnon
Vecchi [24]	2014	Normal and HLHS	3D	1	1	ECG	GP	FP	N/A	CHeart
Seo [25]	2013	Normal	3D	1	–	CT scan	GP	FCC	N/A	N/A
Mangual [7]	2013	DCM and Normal	3D	20	8	ECG	IBM	FCC	N/A	N/A
Vecchi [26]	2013	HLHS	3D	1	2	MRI	GP	FP	Myocardial shape parameters is validated using dual phase MRI	N/A
Nguyen [27]	2013	Normal	3D	1	–	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	N/A
Le [28]	2013	Normal	3D	1	–	MRI	IBM	FP	N/A	FSI-CURVIB flow solver
Dahl [29]	2012	Normal	2D	1	–	Ultrasound	GP	FP	N/A	ANSYS-fluent 6.3.26
Lassila [30]	2012	Mild mitral regurgitation, MI and stroke	3D	–	1	MRI	GP, Multi-scale	FCC	The flow rate and pressure obtained from the multi-scale analysis are validated using a closed loop hydraulic system	Open-source LifeV code
Khalafvand [17]	2012	MI	2D	3	3	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	ANSYS-CFX12
Khalafvand [31]	2012	Before and after SVR	3D	–	1	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	ANSYS-CFX12
Le [32]	2012	Normal	3D	–	1	MRI	IBM	FCC	N/A	FSI-CURVIB flow solver
Mihalef [33]	2011	Normal	3D	1	–	CT scan	GP	FCC	N/A	N/A
Krittian [34]	2010	Normal	3D	1	–	MRI	GP, coupled-FSI	FCC	The flow pattern predicted by CFD simulation is qualitatively validated using a circulatory system	Coupled fluent, MpCCI, and Abaqus
Doenst [35]	2009	Before and after SVR	3D	–	1	MRI	GP	FCC	The flow pattern predicted by CFD simulation is qualitatively validated using a circulatory system	Coupled Fluent, MpCCI, and Abaqus
Schenkel [36]	2009	Normal	3D	1	–	MRI	GP	FCC	The flow pattern predicted by CFD simulation is qualitatively validated using MRI velocity mapping	Star-CD
Long [8]	2007	Normal	3D	6	–	MRI	GP	FCC	The flow pattern predicted by CFD simulation is qualitatively validated using MRI velocity mapping	ANSYS-CFX4
Liang [37]	2007	LHF and normal	3D	1	1	N/A	GP, Multi-scale	FCC	The flow obtained from multi-scale analysis is validated using echo-Doppler data	In-house C ++ code
Long [38]	2003	Normal	3D	1	–	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	ANSYS-CFX4
Saber [39]	2001	Normal	3D	1	–	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	STAR–CD
Saber [40]	2001	Normal	3D	1	–	MRI	GP	FCC	N/A	STAR–CD

^aCondition (DCM dilated cardiomyopathy, HCM hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, HLHS hypoplastic left heart syndrome, LHD left heart failure, MI myocardial infarction, PAH pulmonary arterial hypertension, SV single ventricle, SVR surgical ventricular reconstruction)
^bSolution method (GP geometry-prescribed, FSI fluid-structure interaction, IBM immersed boundary method, LES large eddy simulation)
^cPhase (FCC full cardiac cycle, filling phase)
^dValidation (PIV particle image velocimetry)

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