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A Heterogeneous Model of Endovascular Devices for the Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms

Christophe Chnafa
Simon Mendez

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Numerical computations of hemodynamics inside intracranial aneurysms treated by endovascular braided devices such as flow-diverters contribute to understanding and improving such treatment procedures. Nevertheless, these simulations yield high computational and meshing costs due to the heterogeneity of length scales between the dense weave of the fine struts of the device and the arterial volume. Homogeneous strategies developed over the last decade to circumvent this issue substitute local dissipations due to the wires with a global effect in the form of a pressuredropacross the device surface. However, these methods cannot accurately reproduce the flow-patterns encountered near the struts, the latter strongly dictating the intrasaccular flow environment. In this work, a versatile theoretical framework which aims at correctly reproducing the local flow heterogeneities due to the wires while keeping memory consumption, meshing and computational times as low as possible is introduced. This model reproduces the drag forces exerted by the device struts onto the fluid, thus producing local and heterogeneous effects on the flow. Extensivevalidation for various flow and geometric configurations using an idealized device is performed. To further illustrate the method capabilities, a real patient-specific aneurysm endovascularly treated with a flow-diverter is used, enabling quantitative comparisons with classical approaches for both intra-saccular velocities and computational costs reduction. The proposed heterogeneous model endeavours to bridge the gap between CFD and clinical applications and ushers in a new era of numerical treatment planning with minimally costing computational tools.
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hal-03373180 , version 1 (11-10-2021)

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Alain Berod, Christophe Chnafa, Simon Mendez, Franck Nicoud. A Heterogeneous Model of Endovascular Devices for the Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 2021, pp.e3552. ⟨10.1002/cnm.3552⟩. ⟨hal-03373180⟩
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