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ArticleInternational journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering2014

Computational analysis of the effectiveness of blood flushing with saline injection from an intravascular diagnostic catheter.

Narugopal Ghata, Ralph C Aldredge, Julien Bec, Laura Marcu

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Article in International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Narugopal GhataDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A.
Ralph C Aldredge
Julien Bec
Laura Marcu
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Unstable Arterial PlaquesR01HL067377 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI MARCU, LAURA · 2001 to 2015
$5.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL067377
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical techniques including fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy have demonstrated potential as a tool for study and diagnosis of arterial vessel pathologies. However, their application in the intravascular diagnostic procedures has been hampered by the presence of blood hemoglobin that affects the light delivery to and the collection from the vessel wall. We report a computational fluid dynamics model that allows for the optimization of blood flushing parameters in a manner that minimizes the amount of saline needed to clear the optical field of view and reduces any adverse effects caused by the external saline jet. A 3D turbulence (k - ω) model was employed for Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase flow to simulate the flow inside and around a side-viewing fiber-optic catheter. Current analysis demonstrates the effects of various parameters including infusion and blood flow rates, vessel diameters, and pulsatile nature of blood flow on the flow structure around the catheter tip. The results from this study can be utilized in determining the optimal flushing rate for given vessel diameter, blood flow rate, and maximum wall shear stress that the vessel wall can sustain and subsequently in optimizing the design parameters of optical-based intravascular catheters.

Indexed as

Models, CardiovascularAlgorithmsBlood Flow VelocityCathetersHumansHydrodynamicsInjections, IntravenousPulsatile FlowSaline Solution, HypertonicSpectrometry, FluorescenceVeinsSaline Solution, HypertonicEulerian-Eulerian two-phase flowk − ω turbulence modelmixture modelmultiphase flow

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PMID24953876
PMCPMC4429308
OpenAlexW1912497989

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