Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2016, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (21): 3163-3170.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2016.21.018

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Surface shear stress of intracranial aneurysm stent based on CT data

Wei He, Muhetaer Kelimu, Liu Xiao-yue   

  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830047, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
  • Received:2016-03-11 Online:2016-05-20 Published:2016-05-20
  • Contact: Muhetaer Kelimu, Associate professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830047, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
  • About author:Wei He, Studying for master’s degree, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830047, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
  • Supported by:

     the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, No. 2013211A020

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Numerical stimulation technology is a good method to analyze blood flow changes after intracranial aneurysm stenting that often result in restenosis.

 

OBJECTIVE: To explore the hemodynamic effect of stent implantation on patient-specific intracranial aneurysm and the distribution of the wall shear stress on the stent surface.

 

METHODS: Brain CT data from a patient with intracranial aneurysm were extracted and optimized to establish a patient-specific intracranial aneurysm materialization model. Meanwhile, a three-dimensional model of rectangular section spiral stent was designed to develop an aneurysm model with the stent by the method of boolean operation. Then, the possibility of restenosis was analyzed based on the distribution of wall shear stress on the surface of stent model. 

 

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The wall shear stress on the stent surface which was more than 40 Pa increased along with the increase of blood velocity and blood viscosity at the same moment. However, the wall shear stress on the stent surface which was less than 0.5 Pa decreased along with the increase of blood viscosity, and its distribution was the largest when the blood velocity was 0. This stent provides a new insight into the controlling of the aneurysm growth and rupture, but the restenosis area is too large. In order to prevent restenosis, the stent need to be optimized or reselected to keep the desired shear stress values of 0.5 to 40 Pa, and meanwhile to minimize the pulsating change of wall shear stress during a cardiac cycle.

 

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:生物材料;骨生物材料; 口腔生物材料; 纳米材料; 缓释材料; 材料相容性;组织工程

 

Key words: Stents, Intracranial Aneurysm, Tissue Engineering

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