Heart's Vortex: Intracardiac Blood Flow Phenomena

By Ares Pasipoularides

Book Overview

This outstanding resource is a comprehensive guide to intracardiac blood flow phenomena and cardiac hemodynamics, including the developmental history, theoretical frameworks, computational fluid dynamics, and practical applications for clinical cardiology, cardiac imaging and embryology. More than a compilation of the most up-to-date scientific data and relevant concepts, it is an integrated educational means to developing pluridisciplinary background, knowledge, and understanding of the topic. The text is organized in three parts. Part I, Fundamentals of Intracardiac Flows and Their Measurement, provides comprehensive background from many disciplines that are necessary for a deep and broad understanding of intracardiac blood flow phenomena. Chapters cover necessary mathematics, a brief history of the evolution of ideas and methodological approaches relevant to cardiac fluid dynamics and imaging, a qualitative introduction to fluid dynamic stability theory, physics, fluid dynamics of unsteady blood flows, and an introduction to relevant vortical fluid motions. Part II, Visualization of Intracardiac Blood Flows: Methodologies, Frameworks and Insights, is devoted to pluridisciplinary approaches to the visualization of intracardiac blood flows. It encompasses chapters on 3-D real-time and "live 3-D" echocardiography and Doppler echocardiography; CT tomographic scanning modalities, including multidetector spiral/helical dataset acquisitions; MRI and cardiac MRA, including phase contrast velocity mapping (PCVM); epigenetic factors in cardiogenesis and pre- and postnatal cardiac remodeling. A chapter is devoted to the understanding of post processing exploration techniques and the display of tomographic data, including "slice-and-dice" 3-D techniques and cine-MRI. Part III contains an Appendix presenting technical aspects of the method of predetermined boundary motion, "PBM," developed at Duke University by the author and his collaborators.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B006UF4ZPK
• ISBN13: 9781607950332
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: PMPH USA, Ltd
• Length: 954 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.2" x 10.4"