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LIFE SCIENCES VIRTUAL ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM<br />

As part of his PhD research project under<br />

the supervision of Prof. Giorgio Colombo<br />

from the Department of Mechanical<br />

Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano,<br />

Simone Bartesaghi has developed<br />

a virtual automated process to aid<br />

Abdominal Aorta Aneurysm (AAA)<br />

diagnosis and treatments. Tools such as<br />

CFD modeling and simulation are used in<br />

the workflow process, which starts with<br />

medical images (DICOM) and ends with<br />

the 3D visualization of hemodynamic risk.<br />

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