Are there predefined cardiac meshes available in OpenCARP for realistic heart geometry simulations?

Question

Hi all,

I'm interested in running simulations on anatomically realistic heart geometries. I was wondering if OpenCARP provides any predefined meshes (ventricular, atrial, whole-heart, etc.) that I could use directly or as a starting point for my simulations.

If such meshes are available, where can I find them? Are they compatible out-of-the-box with the typical monodomain/bidomain setups in OpenCARP?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards,

Answer 1

Hey,

There are currently no realistic heart geometries delivered with openCARP. If you are interested, there are some realistic heart geometries available from publications that should be compatible with openCARP monodomain/bidomain simulations. However, there might be some preprocessing necessary.

e.g. https://zenodo.org/records/3890034 for whole heart meshes or https://zenodo.org/records/5571925 for atrial meshes based on a statistical shape model.

Alternatively, you can check out the community experiments on the openCARP website https://opencarp.org/community/community-experiments. These should be ready to use in openCARP!

Best, Tobias