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Raghu Raghavan¹, Martin Brady

¹Therataxis, LLC, JHU Eastern Complex, Suite B305, 1101 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. raghu@therataxis.com

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This study developed an individual-specific model for direct brain infusions, accounting for tissue expansion and backflow. The model accurately predicts drug distribution, offering potential clinical utility for brain disease therapeutics.

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Area of Science:

Biomedical Engineering
Computational Neuroscience
Pharmacokinetics

Background:

Direct brain infusions are considered for serious brain diseases, but individual brain responses to fluid dynamics vary.
Accurate modeling of fluid flow and drug transport in the brain requires nonlinear equations due to dynamic tissue responses.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate an individual-specific computational model for predicting fluid flow and drug distribution during direct brain infusions.
To incorporate key physiological phenomena like infusion-induced interstitial expansion and backflow into the model.

Main Methods:

Developed an individual-specific mathematical model incorporating nonlinear fluid dynamics.
Included infusion-induced interstitial expansion and backflow as critical model components.
Utilized cross-property relations to derive individual-specific model parameters.

Main Results:

The model demonstrated accurate predictions of tracer molecule distribution volumes in living porcine brains.
A high fraction of overlap was observed between computed and measured volumes of distribution.
The model's quantitative results show potential clinical usefulness for drug delivery in brain diseases.

Conclusions:

The developed individual-specific model provides a promising approach for simulating drug transport in the brain.
Incorporating interstitial expansion and backflow is crucial for accurate modeling of brain infusions.
Future work should focus on a more fundamental poroelastic treatment of interstitial expansion and improved diffusion tensor delineation.