Dr Zbigniew Tyfa of the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery at the Technical University of Lodz (PŁ), head of a team created under the NCBR’s LIDER programme, will work on software to support neurosurgeons in deciding which technique to use to protect aneurysms from rupture and growth.

The result of the collaboration between medics from the Medical University of Łódź and engineers from the PŁ will be a programme for the medical prognosis of aneurysms, based on computational fluid mechanics and a neural network. 

The analyses will use digital models of aneurysms of various shapes and sizes, previously imaged in patients, which will then be virtually ‘operated on’ in a number of possible ways.

Dr Zbigniew Tyfa received almost PLN 1.8 million from the NCRD in the 14th LIDER competition for the project ‘Mathematical support for predicting the effects of treatment of intracranial aneurysms’. Implementation will begin at the beginning of March and will take three years.