METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING A CORONARY STENOSIS

摘要

A non-invasive computer-based method and system for assessing a coronary stenosis or other blockage in an artery or other vasculature includes creating a computational model of the vasculature of interest, modeling blood flow through the vasculature, and determining the mean residence time through a given coronary artery segment, which is a direct assessment of physiological changes on the flow of blood as a result of the stenosis. In some embodiments, blood is modeled as a multi-phase fluid.