Patent Document ID: 8718944
Application ID: 12125366
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for determining cardiac status, comprising: for a given patient, a) using a computer-based modeler, constructing a patient-specific, three-dimensional, computational model of the patient's heart, the model including fluid-structure interactions and right ventricle, left ventricle, and patch and scar tissues of the patient's heart, wherein the fluid-structure interactions include deformation of the patient's heart and are represented by a system of differential equations for solid mechanics and fluid mechanics; by a processor, executing the constructed computational model, said executing generating a quantitative analysis of cardiac function, including assessment of ventricle volume based on a patient-specific simulation which simulates heart expansion and contraction by solving the differential equations, wherein the patient-specific simulation is based on ventricle pressure measured in the patient and includes mechanical stress/strain, flow velocity, shear stress and pressure; and validating by the processor the model with pre-operative patient-specific data, including the measured ventricle pressure, prior to assessing surgical options to establish a validated model useable for surgical design, the processor outputting to a user results of the generated quantitative analysis.