Stanley A. Berger

Montford G. Cook Endowed Chair in the College of Engineering, Bioengineering Professor, Mechanical Engineering Core Member, UCB/UCSF Graduate Group in Bioengineering 6111 Etcheverry mailcode: MC 1740 (510) 642-5950 fax: (510) 642-5539 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/berger/index.html Membership effective July 1983

Research Interests

Flow in normal and diseased arteries, in vessels with atheroseclerotic plaque or aneuryms, and interventions, such as stents; microcirculatory flow.  Flow of sickle-cell blood in the microcirculation.  Micro-biofluidics.

Research Summary

For a number of years I have been working with Dr. Saloner (UCSF and VA Hospital) on the application of Magnetic Resonance Angiography(MRA), to analyze and interpret  the flow in the arterial vessels and the patency of these vessels. To reconstruct the MRIs "correctly" one should have accurate simulations of the complex three-dimensional unsteady flows in these vessels. We have been using state-of-art numerical techniques to do so, most recently with special attention to modeling the geometry of atherosclerotic, partially blocked vessels.

I also continue to be interested in other problems in biofluid dynamics, such as the flow of sickle cell blood in the microcirculation, the flow in curved blood vessels, and problems and issues in, and applications of micro-biofluidics.

Selected Publications

    “A Phenomenological Model for Atherosclerotic Plaque Growth and Rupture” (with T.I. Zohdi and G.A. Holzapfel), J. Theoretical Biology, 227, 2004, 437-443.
    “A Turbulence Model for Pulsatile Arterial Flows” (with B.A. Younis), ASME J. Biomech. Eng., 126, 2004, 578-584.
    “Numerical Simulation of Magnetic Resonance Angiographies of an Anatomically Realistic Stenotic Carotid Bifurcation”  (with S. Lorthois, J. Stroud-Rossman, L.-D. Jou, and D. Saloner), Ann. Biomed. Eng., 33, No.3, 2005, 270-283
     "Vascular Fluid Dynamics”, in Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (online version), G. Wnek & G. Bowlin, Eds., Marcel Dekker, Taylor & Francis Encyclopedias, Mar., 2006, 14 pp.
     “A Theoretical Model of Sickle Cell Blood Flow in Skeletal Muscle Microcirculatory Networks” (with B.E. Carlson), 2007, 8th World Congress for Microcirculation, Milwaukee, WI, Aug. 15-19.