Review Article

Hemodynamics of Cerebral Aneurysms: Computational Analyses of Aneurysm Progress and Treatment

Table 1

Some commercial preprocessing software for patient-specific CFD analysis and its role.

SoftwareSlice 2D image segmentation3D surface reconstruction3D volume reconstructionMeshing

3DMax (Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, CA)YesYesYesNo
3D-Doctor (Able Software Corp., Lexington, MA)YesYesYesNo
Mimics (Materialise Group, Leuven, Belgium)YesYesYesNo
Insight Toolkit (Kitware Inc., Clifton Park, NY)YesYesYesNo
3D Slicer (MIT, Boston, MA)YesYesYesNo
SolidWorks (Dassault Systems, Concord, MA)NoNoYesNo
Pro-Engineer (PTC, Needham, MA)NoNoYesNo
CATIA (Dassault Systems, Velizy-Villacoublay, France)NoNoYesNo
3-matic (Materialise Group, Leuven, Belgium)NoNoYesYes
Hypermesh (Altair Engineering Inc., Troy, MI)NoNoYesYes
Gambit (ANSYS Inc., Canonsburg, PA)NoNoYesYes
ICEM-CFD (ANSYS Inc., Canonsburg, PA)NoNoYesYes
Gridgen (Pointwise Inc., Fort Worth, TX)NoNoYesYes