Use of SimVascular at Stanford University
Taylor Lab
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One of the main goals of the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Research Lab (CVBRL) at Stanford is to use numerical flow simulations to study hemodynamics. These simulation results could provide insight into vascular disease processes. They could also aid vascular surgeons in treatment planning and help engineers design better medical devices. A number of software packages are used during these flow simulations.
The primary software system is SimVascular, which is descended from the ASPIRE2 internal lab software. SimVascular is customized for building geometric models from medical imaging data, generating the data files needed to run flow simulations, and processing and visualizing the results from these simulations. It can also be used to interact with and visualize the medical imaging data directly.
Although SimVascular was designed for internal lab use, Charles Taylor, the director of the CVBRL, decided to open source much of his lab’s software through Simbios, the NIH Center for Biomedical Computation at Stanford. The released SimVascular software is a snapshot of the lab’s software with proprietary elements either removed or made available to the general public through a licensing process.
Taylor Lab Research using SimVascular