Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab develops tools for simulating the cardiovascular system, with a particular focus on blood flow in the vasculature, aneurysms and the heart. 

Our Experts build patient-specific models from medical image data (such as MRI and CT Scan) to create a customized model for each patient, which represents their unique vascular anatomy. 

They then use that model to run simulations of blood flow, which allows us to do virtual surgery, virtual treatment planning, and risk assessment.

Much of our focus is on developing numerical tools and computational algorithms to ensure we can capture things like cardiovascular physiology, moving heart and vessel walls or valve leaflets realistically. 

We also develop advanced algorithms for optimization of surgeries and medical devices and uncertainty quantification. Ultimately, we aim to bring the same kind of predictive simulations that we’ve come to routinely expect in, for example, the aerospace industry to medicine. 

Our goal is to make better predictions about patients’ outcomes following surgery or other interventions and ultimately improve their overall outcomes and quality of life.