Applications

A broad range of clinical research studies suggest that atypical blood flow directly relates to medical conditions. Therefore, understanding blood flow behavior can help the diagnosis and prognosis of pathology as well as the assessment of treatment risk/effectiveness and follow-up findings. To this end, PGEM tool provides analysis and visualization techniques for the blood flow dynamics for:

1. Education-driven application: educational 3D visualization of structures complemented by graphics, pictures and text - knowledge base associated with geometry. It is similar to an atlas of human physiology and is important for education and research as well.
2. Supporting of image acquisition process modeling: this seeks to provide the user with tool for creation of image phantoms for simulations in PET, MR, USG, or creation of Pmod Hammers like atlases. In particular these simulations are modeling physics of an acquisition like process of acoustic wave dispersing in human body for the USG, process of radiation for PET, etc.
3. Supporting of CFD modelling: exploration of blood flow based of STL output: interface to CFD solvers OpenFom, Fluent and 3D printing of models. The OpenFoam solver interfaces directly with PMOD. Therefore, the user can generate modeling cases, solve them and visualize the results without leaving the PMOD user-friendly environment. This application is central to provide surface meshes (STL) accurate for CFD solvers like OpenFoam in few steps from the image data level.