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Medical image-based Computational Fluid Dynamic methods are currently increasingly being used in the clinical setting for flow studies of cardio vascular system. The aim of our study was to confirm the feasibility and functionality of a non-invasive computational method providing information about hemodynamic significance of coronary stenosis.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A comparative method was used to simulate the flow energy losses in real (stenotic) and reconstructed models without (reference) stenosis of the coronary arteries under stress test conditions, i.e. for maximum blood flow and minimal, constant vascular resistance.<\/jats:p>\n                <jats:p>In addition to the absolute pressure drop in the stenotic arteries (<jats:italic>FFR<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>sten<\/jats:sub>) and in the reconstructed arteries (<jats:italic>FFR<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>rec<\/jats:sub>), a new energy flow reference index (EFR) was also defined, which expresses the total pressure changes caused by stenosis in relation to the pressure changes in normal coronary arteries, which also allows a separate assessment of the haemodynamic significance of the atherosclerotic lesion itself. The article presents the results obtained from flow simulations in coronary arteries, reconstructed on the basis of 3D segmentation of cardiac CT images of 25 patients from retrospective data collection, with different degrees of stenoses and different areas of their occurrence.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The greater the degree of narrowing of the vessel, the greater drop of flow energy. Each parameter introduces an additional diagnostic value. In contrast to <jats:italic>FFR<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>sten<\/jats:sub>, the EFR indices that are calculated on the basis of a comparison of stenosed and reconstructed models, are associated directly with localization, shape and geometry of stenosis only. Both <jats:italic>FFR<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>sten<\/jats:sub> and EFR showed very significant positive correlation (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.0001) with coronary CT angiography\u2013derived FFR, with a correlation coefficient of 0.8805 and 0.9011 respectively.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The study presented promising results of non-invasive, comparative test to support of prevention of coronary disease and functional evaluation of stenosed vessels.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s13239-023-00658-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,3]],"date-time":"2023-03-03T20:02:25Z","timestamp":1677873745000},"page":"364-379","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["The Comparative Method Based on Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography for Assessing the Hemodynamic Significance of Coronary Artery Stenosis"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2853-7814","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zbigniew","family":"Ma\u0142ota","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wojciech","family":"Sadowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Konrad","family":"Pieszko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rafa\u0142","family":"Zimol\u0105g","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Filip","family":"Czeka\u0142a","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Renata","family":"Malinowska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jaros\u0142aw","family":"Hiczkiewicz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,3]]},"reference":[{"issue":"4","key":"658_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"820","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jtcvs.2007.12.059","volume":"136","author":"CW Akins","year":"2008","unstructured":"Akins, C. 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