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  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Thermal Medicine

Background:

  • Cerebral blood flow macro-modeling is crucial for understanding thermal intervention effects in head trauma.
  • Existing models have limitations in accurately predicting heat transfer within the brain's complex vasculature.
  • Mitigating tissue damage from head trauma requires precise control of brain temperature.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel bioheat model, the vascular porous (VaPor) model, for simulating cerebral blood flow and thermal dynamics.
  • To investigate the impact of counter-current blood flow on enhancing thermal transfer and brain cooling efficiency.
  • To assess the potential of scalp cooling alone to achieve therapeutic hypothermia in neonatal models.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a 3D fluid-porous domain coupled with 1D arterial and venous vessel trees.
  • Integrated cerebral blood flow and energy equations, including metabolic heat generation.
  • Utilized MRI-extracted vasculature and a tree generation algorithm; enforced counter-current flow via vascular structure or flow reversal constant (CR).

Main Results:

  • The VaPor model demonstrated significantly improved average brain cooling (0.56–0.58°C) compared to previous models (0.39°C) during scalp cooling.
  • Inclusion of counter-current cooling effects led to a greater reduction in core brain temperature (0.45°C) versus previous models (0.11°C).
  • The model predicts that scalp cooling alone can achieve hypothermic temperatures (<36°C) in core regions of neonatal models.

Conclusions:

  • The VaPor model provides a more accurate representation of cerebral thermal dynamics, particularly with counter-current flow.
  • This enhanced modeling approach shows promise for optimizing thermal interventions to reduce brain damage after head trauma.
  • Scalp cooling alone may be a viable strategy for inducing therapeutic hypothermia in specific patient populations, such as neonates.