Engineering Simulation Solutions for the Healthcare Industry

Healthcare Industry Case Studies

Diagnosis and Personalized Medicine | Drug Delivery Systems | Medical Device | Physiological Modeling

Diagnosis and Personalized Medicine

USER OF THE YEAR - The First Annual CFD User of the Year Awards
A team of engineers, surgeons, and radiologists from institutions in Japan and Canada study blood flow in cerebral aneurysms using ANSYS solutions.

Ion Dynamics in Electro-Pneumatic Fields: A Key to Modern Biotechnology
ANSYS multiphysics technology helps design highly sensitive protein ion sources used for research in detecting diseases such as cancer on a molecular level at very early stages.

Personalized Blood Flow Simulations
Several research groups investigate blood flow in large arteries using CFD.

Drug Delivery Systems

Needle-Free Drug Injections
ANSYS solutions are used to model a novel, needle-less, powdered drug delivery system that makes use of biolistics technology, where tiny particles are injected through cell walls by a high-powered gun.

CFD Flow Simulation Technology Looks to Revolutionise the Development of Needle-free Epidermal Vaccinations (as seen in EPC)
CFD flow simulation technology looks to evolutionise the development of needle-free epidermal vaccinations.

COPHIT - Optimization of Inhaled Therapies
Using state-of-the-art modeling techniques, COPHIT software simulates the entire dynamic drug delivery process for particulate, aerosol and gaseous drug types, from the device, through the lungs to the pulmonary system.

First-ever Spinal Anesthesia Computer Simulation Helps Explain Neurological Injuries
The first-ever computer simulation of spinal anesthesia was performed to help explain some previously mysterious neurological injuries.

Medical Device

Orthopedic Spinal Implants
By using ANSYS Mechanical, Archus Orthopedics is able to accelerate the development of new spinal implants.

Ion Dynamics in Electro-Pneumatic Fields: A Key to Modern Biotechnology
ANSYS multiphysics technology helps design highly sensitive protein ion sources used for research in detecting diseases such as cancer on a molecular level at very early stages.

Simulation Aids Researchers Studying Spinal Disc Implants
Researchers at DePuy Spine used ANSYS Structural software to model and analyze how well the CHARITÉ artificial disc, an alternative to spinal fusion surgery for the treatment of lower back pain caused by degenerative disc disease, helps restore motion and how it is affected by its placement relative to the center line of the disc nucleus.

Researchers Keep Blood Flowing with Cardiac Pumps Designed with CFD
Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF), the renowned medical institution and one of the world's largest research hospitals, use ANSYS CFX computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to advance the state of the medical art in catheter and rotary pumps for cardiac patients.

Blood Flow Analysis Improves Stent-Grafts
Coupled ANSYS and CFX fluid structure simulations help researchers develop optimal surgical recommendations, improved stent designs and proper stent placement.

Heart Valve Dynamics During a Cardiac Cycle
Ghent University uses a new fluid-structure interaction model that is based on the dynamic mesh model in FLUENT. The model is used to simulate a prosthetic aortic valve, and visualize the blood flow in the region of the valve throughout a cardiac cycle.

Improving Reaction Selectivity by Clever Mixing
ANSYS solutions are applied to pharmaceutical industry chemical reactions that lead to desirable intermediate and end-products and are accompanied by side reactions producing undesired by-products.

Virtual Prototyping System for Blood Pump Design
ABI (Advanced Bionics, Inc.) uses ANSYS software in the development of proprietary bearing- and seal-free rotary blood pump technology.

Heart Valve Dynamics
ANSYS solutions are used in the "Opening Valve Project", a collaborative effort being carried out by three organizationsto study the behavior of a mechanical aortic valve.

Physiological Modeling

Transient FSI Simulation of Vascular Blood Flow
Cardiology research engineers at the University of Colorado Health Science Center use mechanics-based models of varying complexity to gain insight into pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) for the advancement of basic knowledge of the disease and development of new disease diagnostics.

Simulation of the human body in impact biomechanics
The Biomedical Engineering Center of Wayne State University, a leading research institution for the development of finite element models of the human body, uses ANSYS solutions to better understand injury mechanisms during an automotive impact in order to help to design countermeasures.

Exploring Graft-Artery Mismatch
A numerical study using ANSYS solutions was undertaken to examine the effects of compliance and radius mismatch on the distribution of a representative protein released into the blood at the graft/fluid interface.

Blood Flow Analysis Improves Stent-Grafts
Coupled ANSYS and CFX fluid structure simulations help researchers develop optimal surgical recommendations, improved stent designs and proper stent placement.

Understanding the Dangers of Aneurysms
Simulation is used to validate measured blood flow in cerebral aneurysms.