1127 Image-based CFD of Blood Flow in the Hepatic Portion of the Inferior Vena Cava on Budd-Chiari Syndrome

Abstract

Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is one of the vessel disorders caused by thrombosis which occlude partially or completely hepatic veins (HVs) and the inferior vena cava (IVC). It has been demanded to model the blood flow fields in the IVC and HVs to study the cause of formation of thrombosis. In order to analyze the blood flow fields, we carried out medical vessel segmentation of HVs and IVC using level set method, constructed 3D vessel model, and conducted computational fluid dynamics simulation by using velocity profile of the analytical solution for pulsatile flow in the IVC.