2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Assessment of Surgical Rhinoplastic Intervention using Voxel-based Thermo-fluid Simulation
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22560187
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Thermal engineering
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
TANAKA Gaku 千葉大学, 大学院・工学研究科, 准教授 (20292667)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 生体熱工学 / 熱・物質移動 |
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| Research Abstract |
This work describes a new approach to provide detailedquantification of the impact of surgical intervention on bilateral nasal airflow usingvoxel-based thermo-fluid simulation. CT and MRI scans were used to reconstruct 3Dvirtual models of both the pre- and post-operative nasal airways, respectively, of a patientwho presented with a deviated septum. Voxel-based simulations were applied to enable thecharacteristics of inspiratory nasal airflow to be compared between the pre- andpost-operative models. The results showed that the use of such modeling techniques isapplicable to the predictive assessment of surgical interventions.
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