VR Cardiovascular Blood Simulation as Decision Support for the Future Cyber Hospital

Abstract

Planning treatment of acute cardiac events that limit the blood supply to major organs is particularly difficult for interventional cardiologists. The treatment of pathologies, such as vascular stenosis, can have numerous unforeseen consequences as the blood resumes its flow. Their decisions are largely based on 2D medical imagery and their own experience. This work in progress presents a virtual reality blood simulation tool that will augment and improve a clinicians decision-making arsenal, and an outline of the technologies required for this component of the cyber hospital of the future. The tool displays and provides interaction with vital information on how blood may continue to flow through the cardiovascular system after treatment. The blood flow will be simulated using a bespoke implementation of the increasingly effective smoothed particle hydrodynamics model.