Model in 3D allows the doctor walking in your heart – New Technology

       

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world. To find better treatments for the individual patient started innovation project Living Heart five years ago. With the support of the FDA created a consortium of cardiovascular researchers, clinicians and 18 industries.

Everything to achieve the goal of creating a system that makes it possible to tailor the treatment for each individual patient.

Now presents the project, the first mathematical model of a healthy heart. Model makes it possible to modulate a heart in 3d also from a dynamic perspective. By feeding the measurement data of blood flow, thickness of the vessel walls and other structural and material data from the patient, the model can be adapted to each patient. And do constriction or other heart defects visible.

– This simulation model can become a tool that helps us to find the optimal treatment for each Patient says Elazer Eddman, director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at Harvard MIT.

He is one of 22 world-renowned cardiovascular researchers involved in project.

The technical platform was developed by the French company Dassault Systems, which has extensive experience in developing software for 3D simulation . The base than mathematical model of how a healthy heart operates. The model has since been realized in the form of a software enabling virtual environments can be built up.

– We have incorporated our experiences has from simulations of materials for boats and flights and brought them to the tissues. The data we have received cardiac researchers, says Niklas Adamsson, technical manager for Northern Europe at Dassault Systèmes.

How the physician or researcher chooses to use the system depends on how much they want to invest in other equipment.

You can choose to take on the VR glasses (glasses for virtual environments) and steer itself around the heart that is projected in a room, or use a tablet or PC.

– In the long term, we hope that all organs of the body can be made to the dynamic 3D models, says Steve Levine, project manager at Dassault Systèmes.