Engineers have recently linked up with doctors in a war against strokes. It all started with a professor at the University of Houston 
whose research students linked up with physicians at the Methodist Neurological Institute on new technology… Their goal was to identify which brain aneurysms present highest risk of rupture that leads to a stroke.
More research could help treatment of cerebral aneurysms … those ballooning weak walls of blood vessels in the brain…. With more accurate medical tools could help patients for whom aneurysms are most likely to rupture.
Ralph Metcalfe, a mechanical engineering professor at UH and deputy director of the UH biomedical engineering program and one of his graduate students, are teamed with Drs. Charles Strother and Goetz Benndorf, interventional neuroradiologists, and Christof Karmonik, a researcher at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute.
The team will develop 3-D visualizations that allow doctors to see inside the virtual artery to observe what's happening as blood flows through. Check out this University of
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