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ArticleInternational journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering2025

Numerical Assessment of the Efficiency of a New Minimally Invasive Probe for the Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells.

Felix Hehnen, Henri Wolff, Sophia Krakowski, Gabi Bondzio, Michael Lommel, Ulrich Kertzscher, Paul Friedrich Geus

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Article in International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Felix HehnenDeutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Institute of Computer-Assisted Cardiovascular Medicine, Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0151-142X
Henri WolffDeutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Institute of Computer-Assisted Cardiovascular Medicine, Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory, Berlin, Germany.
Sophia KrakowskiDeutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Institute of Computer-Assisted Cardiovascular Medicine, Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory, Berlin, Germany.
Gabi BondzioInvicol GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
Michael LommelDeutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Institute of Computer-Assisted Cardiovascular Medicine, Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory, Berlin, Germany.
Ulrich KertzscherDeutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Institute of Computer-Assisted Cardiovascular Medicine, Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory, Berlin, Germany.
Paul Friedrich GeusDeutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Institute of Computer-Assisted Cardiovascular Medicine, Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory, Berlin, Germany.

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European Regional Development Fund 10194288Investitionsbank Berlin
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Abstract

Liquid biopsy, particularly the isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood, is a promising approach in the fight against cancer. However, the main reason why CTCs are hardly used as biomarkers in the clinic is their complicated isolation from the patient's blood. Existing ex vivo systems use a small volume of blood and can therefore only isolate very few CTCs. To overcome this problem and increase the number of isolated CTCs, a new in vivo method-the BMProbe was introduced, which can isolate CTCs directly from the patient's bloodstream. This study investigates the efficiency of the BMProbe by using Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations to evaluate parameters influencing the attachment probability of CTCs to the probe surface. The analyzed parameters include screened blood volume, residence time, and wall normal rate. Additionally, the impact of probe geometry, vein diameter, and blood flow velocity on probe efficiency was examined. The numerical data suggest that the geometry has a strong influence on cell binding efficiency. Increasing the number of windings from 4 to 32 improves the transport of cells to the surface (negative wall normal rate) from 0 to -29 [mm

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Cell SeparationNeoplastic Cells, CirculatingComputer SimulationHumansHydrodynamicsBMprobecirculating tumor cellscomputational fluid dynamicsin vivo isolation methodliquid biopsynovel isolation methodnumerical analysisparticle trackingscreened blood volume

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PMID40130714
PMCPMC11934836

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