Life science special report 161215 IY opt
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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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