"We hope that the cellular level heart simulations conducted by supercomputers will be introduced to the surgery of congenital heart diseases that are difficult to operate and which require advanced skills."
Toshiaki Hisada Research Professor, The University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo and Fujitsu have jointly developed a heart simulator visualizing cardiac motion at the cellular level. The ‘K computer’ (the supercomputer, which was jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu) performed the complex calculations modeling the motion of 640,000 cells to simulate the mechanism of the heart. In the future the simulator will enable doctors to plan for surgery more effectively by predicting the results of their interventions, and help to discover the causes of diseases, leading to new innovation in healthcare.
To understand the exact expansions and contractions of the heart muscles, the action of every individual muscle cell must be simulated. Only a supercomputer with enormous computational capacity could handle such a complex task.
The University of Tokyo and Fujitsu have jointly developed a heart simulator visualizing cardiac motion at the cellular level. The K computer performs the complex calculations modeling the motion of 640,000 cells to simulate the mechanism of the heart.
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