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Nikhilesh Bappoo developed a bioengineering framework to better understand how evolving blood flow affects the biomechanics of placental vasculature during pregnancy. In his groundbreaking research paper, he explores placental physiology by creating a 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of a rat’s placenta.
A female rat in late pregnancy was used for the research, as there is much resemblance between human and rat placentas. The feto-placental arteries were perfused with Microfil, and scanned via micro-CT imaging. Nikhilesh used Materialise Mimics to convert the micro-CT images into 3D models of the arterial structure, using segmentation tools like thresholding and region-growing. He used Materialise 3-matic to manually remove small defects in the model. He then used a first order Laplacian smoothing to remove noise on the exterior and interior surfaces.
Read the full blog post on Nikhilesh's research
A female rat in late pregnancy was used for the research, as there is much resemblance between human and rat placentas. The feto-placental arteries were perfused with Microfil, and scanned via micro-CT imaging. Nikhilesh used Materialise Mimics to convert the micro-CT images into 3D models of the arterial structure, using segmentation tools like thresholding and region-growing. He used Materialise 3-matic to manually remove small defects in the model. He then used a first order Laplacian smoothing to remove noise on the exterior and interior surfaces.
Read the full blog post on Nikhilesh's research