SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS IN A CEREBRAL ANEURYSM MODEL TO WALL THICKNESS AND MODEL.

Intracranial saccular aneurysms tend to be thin walled and stiffer compared with a normal artery. The current work describes computational structural dynamics (CSD) in an anatomically realistic model of a cerebral aneurysm located in the ophthalmic region, using different wall thickness, model data for the artery and aneurysm, and geometry size. The model was obtained from three-dimensional rotational angiography image data. The wall was assumed three-dimensional hyperelastic solid with different thickness in the artery and in the aneurysm regions. The effects of carotid siphon length are reported. The CSD was solved with the finite elements package ADINA. The predictions of stress and strain on the aneurysm wall were compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]