Inverse modelling of image-based patient-specific blood vessels: zero-pressure geometry and in vivo stress incorporation
visualization of cardiovascular structures is possible using medical images. However, one has to realize that the resulting 3D geometries correspond to conditions. This entails an internal stress state to be present in the measured geometry of a blood vessel due to the presence of the blood pressure. In order to correct for this stress, this paper presents an inverse method to restore the original zero-pressure geometry of a structure, and to recover the stress field...