Assessment of Surgical Rhinoplastic Intervention using Voxel-based Thermo-fluid Simulation

这项工作描述了一种新的方法，可以使用基于体素的热流体模拟来详细量化手术干预对双侧鼻腔气流的影响。CT和MRI扫描分别用于重建鼻中隔偏曲患者术前和术后鼻气道的3d虚拟模型。采用基于体素的模拟，比较手术前后模型的鼻腔吸入气流特征。结果表明，这种建模技术的使用适用于手术干预的预测评估。

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.