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Assessing Cerebral Autoregulation via Oscillatory Lower Body Negative Pressure and Projection Pursuit Regression
Published on: December 10, 2014
A mathematical model of the intracranial system including autoregulation
1Department of Mathematics, St. Michael's College, Vermont, Burlington, USA.
Abstract:
Cerebral autoregulation plays an important role in the dynamic processes of intracranial physiology. This work develops a four-compartment, lumped-parameter model for the interactions of intracranial pressures, volumes, and flows as a test bed for examining the consistent inclusion of explicit autoregulation in mathematical models of the intracranial system. It is hypothesized that autoregulation of the blood supply from the arterioles to the capillary bed can be modeled by allowing the flow resistance at the interface of the artery and capillary compartments in the model to be a function of pressure rather than a constant. The functional dependence on pressure of this resistance parameter is not specified in advance, but emerges naturally from the assumed relationship between pressure differences and flows. Results show that a constant flow from the artery to the capillary compartment can be maintained by a flow resistance which is resistance which is directly proportional to the pressure difference between these two compartments. Oscillatory flow is reestablished in the model at the capillary-cerebrospinal fluid and capillary-venous interfaces.
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