Biomechanics of the Aorta

PART 1 Anatomy, biology, physiopathology
1. Physiopathology
2. Genetics of aortic disease
3. Mechanobiology of aortic cells and extracellular matrix
4. Clinical treatment options

PART 2 Imaging and tissue/rheology characterization
5. Novel experimental methods to characterize the mechanical properties of the aorta
6. Imaging aortic flows in 4D using MRI
7. Ultrasound imaging for aortic biomechanics
8. Functional imaging, focus on [18F]FDG positron emission tomography
9. Image processing: Deep learning for aorta model reconstruction

PART 3 Tissue modeling and rupture
10. On simulation of the biophysical behavior of the aortic heart valve interstitial cell
11. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and thrombus modeling
12. Computational modeling of aneurysm growth in mechanobiology
13. Analysis of aortic rupture: A computational biomechanics perspective
14. Multiscale modeling of aortic mechanics: Tissue, network, and protein

PART 4 Flow modeling and algorithm
15. Multiphysics flow modeling in the aorta
16. Novel Approaches for the numerical solution of fluid-structure interaction in the Aorta
17. Turbulence modeling of blood flow
18. Inverse problems in aortic flow modeling
19. Modeling of flow induced mechanosignaling
20. Reduced order modeling of cardiovascular hemodynamics

PART 5 Applications
21. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
22. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm rupture prediction
23. (T)EVAR simulation
24. Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) in aortic dissections
25. Pharmacological treatments, mouse models, and the aorta