Simulations in Biomedicine

Section 1 Simulation of physiological processes: On the variation of parameters that characterize the state of a physiological system. Red blood cells as an example; The cardiac cell model at normal and high pacing rates with Markovian representations of gating processes(Computer simulation study); On coupling cellular automata based activation and finite element muscle model applied to heart ventricle modelling; Comparison of different models of orientation selectivity in primary visual cortex; Brain cooling strategies: numerical simulations on a realistic human head geometry. Section 2 Cardiovascular system: vascular system: Stochastic nonlinear dynamics of the cardiovascular system; A heterogeneous approach for modelling blood flow in an arterial segment; MRI based CFD analysis for brain blood flow with IDO-AMR method; Cavitation phenomena in thin films of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids due to rapid bubble expansion; Metabolic system dynamics: lumped and distributed models; Advanced cardiovascular physiology studied by applying the equivalent electronic circuit. Section 3 Cardiovascular system - lung: Eulerian multiphase CFD analysis of particle transport and deposition in the human lung; A geometric model analysis of conductive airways in expiratory flow limitation during artificial ventilation; Estimation of respiratory parameters during mechanical ventilation: a simple method taking account of tubing compliance; Fundamentals of alveolar diffusion: impact of microscopic solid particles. Section 4: Cardiovascular system - cardiac: Feasibility study of the dynamic mesh model in FLUENT for fluid-structure interaction of a heart valve; The itramyocardial stress and the mechanics of the left ventricular contraction; Computational haemodynamics of left coronary artery; A modelling study of the cardiovascular response to exercise in patients with mitral stenosis; Index for cardiac dysfunction of left-ventricular filling phase; Equivalent electronic circuit model of cardiovascular system. (part contents)