Cardiovascular Modeling

Abstract

Modeling of the cardiovascular system is increasingly used to provide information that is not easily measured in humans or that can be used to predict treatment outcomes. Importantly, cardiac MRI can not only provide much of the data necessary to build such models, but can also be used to provide much of the data necessary to validate these processes. This will be a relatively novel area of work for most in the field of imaging, and this chapter will outline the basic principles and types of models that are currently available, and demonstrate their use with in specific examples.