Digital Analysis of Nasal Airflow Facilitating Decision Support in Rhinosurgery
- Successful functional surgery on the nasal framework requires reliable and comprehensive diagnosis. In this regard, the authors introduce a new methodology: Digital Analysis of Nasal Airflow (diANA). It is based on computational fluid dynamics, a statistical shape model of the healthy nasal cavity and rhinologic expertise. diANA necessitates an anonymized tomographic dataset of the paranasal sinuses including the complete nasal cavity and, when available, clinical information. The principle of diANA is to compare the morphology and the respective airflow of an individual nose with those of a reference. This enablesmorphometric aberrations and consecutive flow field anomalies to localize and quantify within a patient’s nasal cavity. Finally, an elaborated expert opinion with instructive visualizations is provided. Using diANA might support surgeons in decision-making, avoiding unnecessary surgery, gaining more precision, and target-orientation for indicated operations.
Author: | Thomas Hildebrandt, Jan Joris Bruening, Hans LameckerORCiD, Stefan ZachowORCiD, Werner Heppt, Nora Schmidt, Leonid GoubergritsORCiD |
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Document Type: | Article |
Parent Title (English): | Facial Plastic Surgery |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 1 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 8 |
Tag: | diANA; nasal airflow simulation; nasal breathing; nasal obstruction; rhinorespiratory homeostasis; statistical shape model |
Year of first publication: | 2019 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1677720 |