Figure 1.

Computational Model of Global Arterial-Venous Circulation Reproduces Experimentally Measured Blood Flow Distribution

(A) The circulation network is reconstructed from the meshes obtained from a 3D body scan. The blood flow is then obtained by imposing flow conservation and the Hagen-Poiseuille equation. CTC trajectories follow the blood flow and can attach to the vessel walls if they are within a distance δ of them.

(B) Blood flow distribution obtained from the model.

(C) The fraction of blood reaching each organ obtained with the model is in good agreement with experimental data from Williams and Leggett (1989).