2023

  • In October 2023, Jordi Alastruey was appointed leader of the Technological and Innovation WG of ARTERY, the prominent society for vascular research.
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  • Jordi Alastruey was a Keynote speaker at the Huawei Future Device Technology Summit in Helsinki, Finland, in October 2023, presenting on Advancing Health Assessment through Synthetic Pulse Wave Data. Further details on the summit and Alastruey's presentation are provided here.
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  • The group participated in the ARTERY23 conference in October 2023. Fatma Alimahomed and Jingyuan Hong gave oral presentations on fetal growth restriction diagnosis by ultrasound-based pulse wave analysis, and on arterial stiffness assessment by machine-learning-based pulse wave analysis. Eason Rangarajan, David Wilson, and Ran Yan presented posters. Jordi Alastruey was part of the Conference Programme Committee.
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  • The group is a member of the Horizon QUMPHY project, a consortium of 17 European partners aiming to establish how uncertainties of machine learning models should be quantified when applied to photoplethysmography signal evaluation. The project started in July 2023 and funds the PhD studentship of Sara Vardanega.
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  • In June 2023, Jordi Alastruey joined the Programme Committee for the 8th edition of the CMBE conference series, scheduled for June 2024 in Arlington Virginia, USA.
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  • Peter Charlton and Jordi Alastruey contributed to the annual VascAgeNet working group meeting in Limassol, Cyprus, in May 2023. Peter also taught at the assoiated training school, with Aristide Mathieu attending as a student. VascAgeNet

  • Jordi Alastruey became an Associate Editor for the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering in March 2023.
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  • In March 2023, Jordi Alastruey joined the Programme Committee for the ARTERY23 conference, held in Bonn, Germany.
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    2022

  • Jingyuan Hong and Jordi Alastruey volunteered at the School’s exhibit Hospital of the Future (Soft Colonoscopy stand), New Scientist Live, London, October 2022. NewScientist

  • The group attended the ARTERY22 conference in October 2022. Jingyuan Hong presented on arterial stiffness assessment by pulse arrival time, and Samuel Vennin presented in the young investigator session on public engagement.
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  • Jordi Alastruey gave an online seminar at the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research in October 2022 on The role of synthetic pulse wave data in the development of technologies to assess cardiovascular function. A recording of this seminar is available here.
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  • Jordi Alastruey delivered 2 hours of lectures on An Introduction to Arterial Blood Flow in The Cardiovascular System at Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in October 2022, as part of the China Ministry of Education's "111 plan" to share global academic research with Chinese students.
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  • Francesco Piccioli and Jordi Alastruey participated in the 9th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB) in Taipei, Taiwan, in July 2022. Francesco gave the oral presentations "On the relative role of cardiac and vascular properties in raising pulse pressure," and Jordi was an invited speaker to the session Clinical Application for Biomechanics in Cardiopulmonary System. He gave the talk titled The relevant role of in silico pulse wave databases in machine learning-based pulse wave analysis. A recording of this seminar is available here. He also co-organised and moderated sessions at the congress.
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  • Jordi Alastruey co-authored an editorial with Jonathan Mynard for the special issue Reduced order modelling for cardiovascular problems published in the Int. J. Numer. Meth. Biomed. Eng. in July 2022.
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  • Weiwei Jin, Francesco Piccioli, and Jordi Alastruey participated in the 7th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering in Milan, Italy, in June 2022. Weiwei and Francesco gave oral presentations titled, respectively, "Pulse wave velocity estimation from the radial pressure wave using recurrent neural networks" and "On the assessment of cardiac properties from pulse waves - A computational study". Jordi co-organised a mini-symposium on cardiac function and coronary flow.
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  • Peter Charlton and Jordi Alastruey contributed to the annual VascAgeNet working group meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece, in May 2022. VascAgeNet

  • Jordi Alastruey gave 4 hours of lectures on Modelling Arterial Blood Flow in the Cardiovascular System at Northeastern University, China, in April 2022, as part of the "boundless classroom" programme. Jordi was invited again as an international expert on the topic, after his initial classes in December 2020.
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  • Jordi Alastruey became a PhD Subject Area Board Member (SAB) for the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, in February 2022. He is co-responsible for approving nominations of PGR degree (MPhil, PhD, MD(Res)) examiners to ensure nominations are fair and consistent with guidelines and regulations.
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  • Jordi Alastruey gave an online seminar at the Insigneo Institute in January 2022 on In silico pulse wave databases for haemodynamics studies.
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  • Jordi Alastruey was an invited speaker to the webinar Simulating photoplethysmography signals in January 2022, part of the Developments in Photoplethysmography webinar series hosted by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM). His presentation was titled In silico PPG datasets for haemodynamic studies.
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    2021

  • Peter Charlton and Jordi Alastruey contributed to the VascAgeNet training school titled ‘Vascular ageing: physiological and technical aspects,' held in Split, Croatia, in September 2021. They also participated in the annual VascAgeNet working group meeting that followed the training school.
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  • Jordi Alastruey gave an online seminar at the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt in February 2021. His presentation was titled Databases of in silico pulse waves for haemodynamic studies.
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  • Congratulatins to Weiwei Jin on successfully defending her PhD research during his viva on 16th February 2021. Her thesis is titled Cardiovascular Function Assessment using Computational Blood Flow Modelling and Machine Learning.

    2020

  • Jordi Alastruey gave 4 hours of lectures on Modelling Arterial Blood Flow in the Cardiovascular System at Northeastern University, China, in December 2020, as part of the "boundless classroom" programme. Jordi was invited as an international expert on the topic.
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  • The group attended the ARTERY20 virtual conference in October 2020. Weiwei Jin gave an oral presentation on pulse wave velocity estimation using machine learning, and Tianqi Wang presented his computational study on the effect of abdominal aortic aneurysm on pulse wave morphology.
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  • Jordi Alastruey gave an online seminar at the Institute of Personalized Medicine, Sechenov University in September 2020. His presentation was titled Arterial Pulse Wave Signals – Modelling and Clinical Value.
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  • Weiwei Jin and Tianqi Wang participated in the Virtual Physiological Human 2020 (VPH2020) conference held online in August 2020. Weiwei presented her work on assessing the ability of 1-D modelling to accurately simulate pulse wave propagation across stenoses and aneurysms. Tianqi presented his recent computational study on portal venous hemodynamic changes after splenectomy in patients with portal hypertension. Abstracts of both studies can be found here.
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  • Jorge Aramburu gave an oral presentation titled Identifying parameters in 1-D/0-D modelling of haemodynamics in the Fontan circulation at the online TOFMOD workshop on congenital heart diseases – a satellite event of the VPH2020 conference organised by INRIA and UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, in August 2020.

  • Congratulatins to Sam Vennin on being awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Sainsbury Management Fellowship to undertake a full-time MBA course at London Business School in August 2020.
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  • Congratulatins to Jorge Mariscal-Harana on successfully defending his PhD research during his viva on 8th April 2020. His thesis is titled Non-Invasive Assessment of the Aortic Pressure Wave: Development and Testing Using In Silico and In Vivo Data.

  • Jordi Alastruey gave a webinar at the University of Zaragoza in April 2020. His presentation was entitled Arterial Blood Flow and Pulse Wave Signals – Modelling and Clinical Applications.
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  • Peter Charlton and Jordi Alastruey participated in the First Working Group Meeting of the COST Action VascAgeNet held at Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (PARCC) in February 2020. The three-day meeting provided an excellent opportunity for interdisciplinary and intersectional discussions, bringing together industry, clinical expertise, basic research, and engineering to push the concept of vascular ageing.
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    2019

  • Jordi Alastruey assumed the role of Leader for the Working Group Physiological and Technical Background - from Bench to Bedside of the COST Action Network for Research in Vascular Ageing, November 2019.
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  • The group attended the ARTERY19 conference in Budapest, Hungary, in October 2019. Weiwei gave an oral presentation on flow-mediated dilation, and Pete and Sam presented posters.
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  • The group hosted a departmental seminar on Blood Flow Modelling and Analysis in October 2019. Weiwei presented her research on understanding diseased haemodynamics using computational modelling, and Joaquin described a new analytical approach for studying pulse wave mechanics in arterial networks.
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  • Congratulations to Weiwei Jin on being awarded a Peter Baker Travelling Fellowship. She collected her award at an official ceremony held in Guy's Campus in November 2019.

  • Jorge Mariscal-Harana and Sam Vennin gave oral presentations at BioMedEng19 in London, September 2019. Jorge's talk was on the assessment of central blood pressure from blood flow and Sam, who was awarded a BHF Travel Award, presented his work on the influence of cardiac dynamics on the aortic pressure wave. Additionally, Sam chaired a workshop on public engagement and research impact.
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  • Jordi Alastruey and Sam Vennin ran the summer school course Applied Maths: Understanding Engineering through Numbers for the King's College London International Summer School in July 2019. The aim of this course was to introduce mathematical concepts and methods used to solve real-world engineering problems.
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  • Prof Lisheng Xu from Northeastern University, China, visited in July 2019. Lisheng presented his research group's work, and opportunities for collaboration between the two groups were explored.
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  • Weiwei Jin and Jorge Mariscal-Harana attended the 6th International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering in Sendai, Japan, in June 2019. Weiwei talked about "A systematic comparison between 1-D and 3-D haemodynamics in diseased arterial models", while Jorge's talk was titled "An assessment of algorithms to estimate central blood pressure from non-invasive measurements". Jordi co-organised two mini-symposia on reduced-order modelling.
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  • Sam Vennin gave a Pint of Science talk titled "Hypertension: Beyond the numbers" in May 2019.
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  • Weiwei Jin, Jorge Mariscal-Harana, and Sam Vennin presented their research at the 14th International Symposium on Biomechanics in Vascular Biology and Cardiovascular Disease at Imperial College London, UK, in April 2019. Jordi chaired a session on Pulse Wave Analysis, and Sam presented his research on the role of ventricular ejection pattern on augmented pressure. Weiwei and Jorge presented posters.
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  • Jordi Alastruey was invited to give a webinar for the European ITN Personalised In-slico Cardiology in March 2019. His presentation was entitled Computational Blood Flow – Arterial Pulse Wave Modelling. A recording of his presentation is available here.
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  • Using the group's cardiovascular simulator rig, Ye Li and Weiwei Jin conducted a practical lab session for our third-year UG students of BEng/MEng Biomedical Engineering in March 2019.
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  • Jordi Alastruey was invited to give a seminar at the Department of Bioengineering , Imperial College London, in February 2019. His seminar was entitled "Pulse Wave Analysis - Modelling and Clinical Value".
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    2018

  • Jordi Alastruey was invited to give a seminar at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Oct 2018. His seminar was entitled Arterial blood flow modelling and analysis using reduced-order models.
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  • Phil Chowienczyk delivered the prestigious McDonald Lecture at ARTERY18, Guimarães, Portugal, 18-20 October 2018. His lecture, The haemodynamic genesis of hypertension, focused on the latest development in our understanding of what causes hypertension. Ye Li, Peter Charlton, Sam Vennin, Jorge Mariscal-Harana and Weiwei Jin all presented posters.
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  • Jordi Alastruey was an invited trainer at the ENIUS Training School Computational Approaches to Ureteric Stent Design, Oxford 11-12 September 2018. Weiwei Jin and Jorge Mariscal received grants to attend the school as trainees.
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  • Congratulations to Peter Charlton who was awarded the Early Career Researcher Award at the BioMed18 Conference!
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  • The Haemod Research Group attended the BioMed18 Conference at Imperial College London. Jordi Alastruey chaired the workshop Reduced Order Modelling and Pulse Wave Analysis, Peter Charlton and Jorge Aramburu gave oral presentations, and Samuel Vennin, Jorge Mariscal-Harana and Weiwei Jin presented posters.
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  • Samuel Vennin officially graduated in July 2018 with a PhD in Cardiovascular Sciences titled Modelling the Relationship between Central Blood Pressure and Flow - with Applications for Non-Invasive Haemodynamic Measurement Technology.
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  • Jordi Alastruey, Peter Charlton, Jorge Mariscal-Harana and Weiwei Jin presented their work at the "8th World Congress of Biomechanics" in Dublin, from 8 to 12 July 2018. Jordi gave a keynote lecture on Subject-specific arterial blood flow modelling. Pete gave a presentation on Modelling arterial pulse wave propagation during healthy ageing. Pete, Jorge and Weiwei presented the posters below.
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  • Jordi Alastruey and Peter Charlton organised the course Applied Maths: Understanding Engineering through Numbers for the King's College London International Summer School, July 2018.

  • Samuel Vennin helped with the activities of the Hot Stuff stand held by our Department at the last Royal Society Summer Exhibition, from 2 to 8 July 2018. The stand aimed to engage the audience with radioactivity and its use in medicine to detect and treat diseases such as cancer.
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  • Jordi Alastruey was an invited key speaker at the plenary session Personalized Medicine of the Sechenov International Biomedical Summit (SIBS 2018) held at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, May 2018.
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  • Peter Charlton and Jordi Alastruey were invited to presentat their latest research at the MEDIAN-MIC Cardiovascular Clinician and Academic Knowledge Exchange event organised by the NIHR Cardiovascular MedTech Co-operative and held at King's College London, April 2018.

  • Samuel Vennin successfully defended his PhD research at his viva on 28 March 2018. His thesis is titled Modelling the Relationship between Central Blood Pressure and Flow - with Applications for Non-Invasive Haemodynamic Measurement Technology. Congratulations to Sam!!!

  • Jordi Alastruey gave an invited presentation titled Arterial blood flow modelling using 1D/0D formulations at the 60th British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC 2018) held in the University of St Andrews, Scotland, March 2018.

  • Using the group's cardiovascular simulator rig, Ye Li and Weiwei Jin conducted a practical lab session for our third year UG students of "BEng/MEng Biomedical Engineering" in March 2018.
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  • Peter Charlton and Samuel Vennin presented their latest research at the "STEM for Britain" event held in the Houses of Parliament (London, UK) in March 2018.
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  • Jorge Mariscal-Harana and Samuel Vennin went from modelling the cardiovascular system to challenging their cardiovascular fitness. Jorge finished the Sevilla Marathon in February 2018 while Sam ran the Barcelona one in March 2018.
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  • Jordi Alastruey joined the Scientific Committee of the BioMedEng 18 conference, the UK’s largest gathering of Bioengineers, Biomedical Engineers and Medical Engineers in January 2018.

    2017

  • Jordi Alastruey joined the Programme Committee of the International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, CMBE19 in December 2017.

  • Jorge Mariscal-Harana, Samuel Vennin and Jordi Alastruey attended the ARTERY17 conference in Pisa, Italy, October 2017. Jorge gave an oral presentation and Sam presented a poster.
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  • We have a new group member who started this September! Welcome to Weiwei Jin and good luck with her PhD!

  • Peter Charlton, Jorge Mariscal-Harana and Samuel Vennin attended the MEIMPEC2017 conference at Sandown Park Racecourse, September 2017. Jorge and Samuel gave oral presentations on their latest research, while Peter presented the results of his new article for which he was awarded the Martin Black Prize for best paper in Physiological Measurement.
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  • Jorge Mariscal-Harana presented his research on Estimation of patient-specific aortic blood pressure using 1-D blood flow modelling at the EuroMech Colloquium 595 in Lille, August 2017.

  • Jorge Mariscal-Harana and Samuel Vennin attended the Royal Society Summer Exhibition where they helped present the cardiovascular research happening at King's.
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  • Jordi Alastruey and Peter Charlton organised the course Applied Maths: Understanding Engineering through Numbers for the King's College London International Summer School, June 2017.

  • Samuel Vennin participated at the King’s BHF Centre of Research Excellence Postgraduate Symposium in May 2017. He gave the oral presentation titled Identifying haemodynamic determinants of pulse pressure: an integrated numerical and physiological approach.

  • Peter Charlton successfully defended his PhD research at his viva on 27 April 2017. His thesis is titled Continuous Respiratory Rate Monitoring to Detect Clinical Deteriorations using Wearable Sensors. Congratulations to Pete!!!

  • In April, Jorge Mariscal-Harana, Samuel Vennin and Jordi Alastruey presented their latest research at the 5th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. They all gave oral presentations and Jorge also presented a poster. Jordi co-organised two mini-symposia on reduced-order modelling.
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  • In April, Peter Charlton presented his research at the Science and Engineering Impact Showcase event at KCL.
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  • Using the group's cardiovascular simulator rig, Ye Li conducted a practical lab session for our third year UG students of "BEng/MEng Biomedical Engineering" in March 2017.
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  • In February we participated at the Cardiovascular HTC Open Day held at St Thomas' Hospital, London. The following posters were presented.
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  • Arna van Engelen had an article accepted in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. She compared different methods for computing the aortic length and assessed their effect on pulse wave velocity calculations. You can find her latest work on her personal page.

    2016

  • Congratulations to Jorge Mariscal-Harana for being awarded the prize for best student in the "Image Computing and Computational Modelling" stream of King's-Imperial Centre of Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging, Dec 2016. May this be the start of a successful PhD!
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  • Ye Li, Samuel Vennin and Phil Chowienczyk attended the ARTERY16 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ye and Sam presented posters.
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  • We are currently looking for an RA to work on a new BHF-funded project for 3 years. Click here for a description of the project and how to apply. This call closes on 22nd September 2016.

  • Peter Charlton, Jorge Mariscal-Harana and Jordi Alastruey attended "MEIBioeng16" at Keble College, Oxford, September 2016. Jorge and Jordi gave oral presentations at the session on Computational Modelling in Biomedicine: Modelling Uncertainty. Peter gave a poster presentation.
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  • Sally Epstein successfully defended her PhD research at her viva on 15 August 2016. Her thesis is titled Assessment of Cardiovascular Biomarkers Derived from Peripheral Pulse Waveforms Using Computational Blood Flow Modelling. Congratulations to Sally!!!

  • Samuel Vennin presented his work at the the "LS SIAM16" conference in Boston, USA. He gave a talk on On deriving a new clinical protocol for noninvasive assessment of the aortic blood pressure waveform using 1D modelling.

  • The group attended the symposium "Arterial haemodynamics: past, present and future" at UCL, London, June 2016. Marie, Sam and Ye presented their work.

  • Jordi Alastruey joined the Programme Committee of the International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, CMBE17 in May 2016.

  • Arna van Engelen presented her studies on "Aortic centreline tracking for PWV measurements in multiple MRI sequences" and "Automatic coronary centreline tracking from coronary MRI" at the 24th Annual Meeting of the ISMRM, Singapore, May 2016.

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  • Using the group's cardiovascular simulator rig, Ye Li conducted a practical lab session for our third year UG students of "BEng/MEng Biomedical Engineering" in March 2016.
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  • Marie Willemet and Jordi Alastruey wrote the eLetter entitled Towards novel pulse wave analysis methods. After all we may not have to abandon the reservoir pressure concept?’ in response to the article by Westerhof et al., Hypertension 2015, January 2016.

    2015

  • Peter Charlton and Samuel Vennin presented their research work at the KCL Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Divisional Symposium, on 19th October 2015.
    Congratulations to Peter who won one of the two Best Poster awards!

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  • Ye Li, Nick Gaddum, Samuel Vennin, Marie Willemet and Phil Chowienczyk participated at the ARTERY15 conference in Krakow, October 2015.
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    Ye presented an oral communication on "Origins of the backward traveling wave in the arterial tree."
    See below Nick, Samuel and Marie's' poster presentations.
    Phil gave the special guest lecture "Systolic hypertension: More than just arterial stiffness?"

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  • Arna van Engelen presented her study on "Can we accurately measure aortic lengths and pulse wave velocities from 2D cine images?" at the 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the ESMRMB, Edinburgh, UK, October 2015.

  • Jordi Alastruey visited Eugenia Corvera Poiré’s lab at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico DC, August 2015. A novel analytical approach to study blood flow in the arterial network was developed and later published in Ann Biomed Eng.

  • Jordi Alastruey gave 8 hours of lectures on "Modelling Blood Flow in Vessel Networks of the Cardiovascular System" at the international summer school Modeling and Analysis of Biological Network Dynamics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, August 2015. He was also an invited speaker to the workshop Modeling and Analysis of Biological Network Dynamics.

  • Samuel Vennin, Marie Willemet and Jordi Alastruey attended the 4th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering in Paris, June 2015. Jordi co-organised a mini-symposium on 1-D blood flow modelling. CMBE15

  • Arna van Engelen presented the poster "2D versus 3D aortic distance measurements for MRI-based pulse wave velocity analysis" at the Joint BHF Centres of Research Excellence Imaging Symposium, Imperial College London, June 2015.

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  • Jordi Alastruey was an invited speaker to the BHF Centre workshop Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, KCL, London, May 2015. He gave a short presentation on "Computational modelling in the cardiovascular system and prospects for understanding HFPEF".

  • Samuel Vennin presented a poster below at the Annual BHF Centre Postgraduate Symposium, Guy’ Hospital, London, April 2015.

  • Using our in-house cardiovascular simulator rig, Nick Gaddum conducted a practical lab session for our third year UG students of "BEng/MEng Biomedical Engineering" in March 2015.
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    2014

  • Jordi Alastruey was an invited speaker at the EPSRC workshop Focus group on translational research applied to 0D-1D coupled models of the circulation in Swansea, December 2014.

  • Sally Epstein, Ye Li and Marie Willemet participated at the ARTERY14 conference in Maastricht, October 2014.
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    Ye presented an oral communication on "Do backward pressure waves arise from 'reflections' or from a 'reservoir'?".

  • Jordi Alastruey gave the seminar entitled "Translating 1-D Blood Flow Modelling to the Clinic: Progress and Challenges" at UCL, November 2014.

  • Peter Charlton participated at the Medical Engineering Centres Annual Meeting and Bioengineering14 Conference in London, September 2014. He gave two oral presentations: "Optimising the Windkessel model for cardiac output monitoring during changes in vascular tone" and "Continuous physiological monitoring of ambulatory patients".

  • Sally Epstein and Peter Charlton gave oral presentations at the 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Chicago, August 2014. EMBS14

  • Peter Charlton presented the poster below at the Stratified Medicine Symposium at Guy's Hospital, London, July 2014.

  • Sally Epstein and Jordi Alastruey attended the Joint Meeting ESH-ISH Hypertension in Athens, June 2014.
    Sally gave the oral presentation "Computational modelling of the aortic pulse waveform in the clinical setting".
    Jordi’s presenation was entitled "Arterial stiffness derived from pulse wave measures – Theory". ESH14

  • Jordi Alastruey gave the seminar entitled "Reduced Modelling of Blood Flow in the Cardiovascular System" at Swansea University, June 2014.

  • Jordi Alastruey was an invited speaker to the workshop "Mathematical and Computational Modelling in Cardiovascular Problems" at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Moscow, April 2014. His presentation was titled "Arterial Pulse Wave Propagation: Modelling and Analysis".



  • 2013

  • Jordi Alastruey was the external examiner of the DPhil thesis "Multi-Scale Modelling of Blood Flow in the Coronary Microcirculation" by Amy Smith, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK, December 2013.

  • Sally Epstein, Nick Gaddum and Jordi Alastruey participated at the ARTERY13 conference in London, October 2013.

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  • Jordi Alastruey gave the seminar entitled "Translating 1-D Blood Flow Modelling to the Clinic: Progress and Challenges" at UCL, November 2014.

  • Peter Charlton participated at the Medical Engineering Centres Annual Meeting and Bioengineering14 Conference in London, September 2014. He gave two oral presentations: "Optimising the Windkessel model for cardiac output monitoring during changes in vascular tone" and "Continuous physiological monitoring of ambulatory patients".