Patent Document ID: 20130144573
Application ID: 13311989
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for assessment of virtual stent implantation in an aortic aneurysm, comprising: generating a patient-specific 4D anatomical model of the aorta from the 4D medical imaging data; adjusting a model representing mechanical properties of the aorta wall to reflect changes due to aneurysm growth at a plurality of time stages; generating a stable deformation configuration of the aorta for each of the plurality of time stages by performing fluid structure interaction (FSI) simulations using the patient-specific 4D anatomical model at each time stage based on the adjusted model representing the mechanical properties of the aorta wall at each time stage; performing virtual stent implantation for each stable deformation configuration of the aorta; and performing FSI simulations for each virtual stent implantation.