Bioengineering

Taylor, Charles, PhD

(650) 725-6218

Appointments

Co-Director of Bioengineering Scholarly Concentration for M.D. Students, Bioengineering Department

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Surgery and Pediatrics (by courtesy)

Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery

Honors & Awards
Scott Delp
R.H. Gallagher Young Investigator in Computational Mechanics Award from the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, 2003.
Young Investigator in Computational Mechanics Award from the International Association for Computational Mechanics, 2002
James F. Clark Fellow in Bioengineering at Stanford University, 2001
 
Professor Taylor's research in "predictive medicine" and "simulation-based medical planning" has been featured on several television and radio programs including Quantum, Beyond 2000, New Media News, and The Osgood Files and has appeared in Discover and Mechanical Engineering magazines. Professor Taylor has delivered several keynote lectures in the last few years including the 2000 Applied Mathematics in Industrial Flows Conference in Tuscany, Italy, the First International Symposium on Advanced Fluid Information, 2001, Sendai Japan, the 2002 Taiwan National Computational Fluid Dynamics conference, Tainan, Taiwan, the 2003 United States Association for Computational Mechanics conference, Albuquerque, NM, the 2003 Computational Sciences Symposium, Trondheim, Norway, and the 2003 Red-Raider Mini-Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems, Lubbock, TX.
  
Professional Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. (1996)
M.S., Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. (1992)
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. (1991)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,NY. (1987)
 
Web Links
Research site: http://med.stanford.edu/school/vascular/
 
Research Interests

Cardiovascular Bioengineering, Simulation-Based Medical Planning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Image-Based Geometric Modeling, Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. For more information check the Taylor lab home page. Current projects:

  • National Science Foundation: Simulation-Based Medical Planning for Cardiovascular Disease
  • Medtronic Vascular: Applications of Cardiovascular Modeling and Imaging in Medical Device Design
  • National Institutes of Health: Quantitation of Biomechanical Determinants of Human AAA (w/ C. Zarins).
  • National Institutes of Health: Mechanobiology of Arterial Remodeling and Experimental AAA (w/ R. Dalman).
  • Whitaker Foundation: Predictive Methods for Cardiovascular Treatment Planning
  • National Institutes of Health: MR Imaging and Computer Modeling of Tetralogy of Fallot (w/ J. Feinstein, Pending)
  • National Institutes of Health: Aortic Wall Microarchitecture and Cyclic Strain (w/ C. Zarins, Pending)
Representative Publications

C.A. Taylor (2004) Blood Flow. Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, to appear in 2004.

C.A. Taylor, M.T. Draney (2004) Experimental and Computational Methods in Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, to appear in 2004.

M.T. Draney, F.R. Arko, M.T. Alley, M. Markl, R.J. Herfkens, N.J. Pelc, C.K. Zarins, C.A. Taylor (2003) In Vivo Quantification of Porcine Aortic Wall Motion and Cyclic Strain Using Cine Phase Contrast MRI. Submitted to Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

I. Vignon, C.A. Taylor (2003) Outflow Boundary Conditions for One-dimensional Finite Element Modeling of Blood Flow and Pressure Waves in Arteries. Accepted for Publication in Wave Motion.

C.P. Cheng, R.J. Herfkens, C.A. Taylor (2003) Abdominal Aortic Hemodynamics in Healthy Subjects Age 50-70 at Rest and During Lower Limb Exercise: In Vivo Quantification Using MRI. Atherosclerosis, Vol. 168, No. 2, pp. 323-331.

B.N. Steele, J. Wan, J.P. Ku, T.J.R. Hughes, C.A. Taylor (2003) In vivo Validation of a One-Dimensional Finite Element Method for Simulation-Based Medical Planning for Cardiovascular Bypass Surgery, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 649-656.

C.P. Cheng, D.F. Schwandt, E.L. Topp, J.H. Anderson, R.J. Herfkens, C.A. Taylor (2003) Dynamic Exercise Imaging with an MR-Compatible Bicycle within the GE Open-Magnet. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 581-585.

M.T. Draney, R.J. Herfkens, T.J.R. Hughes, N.J. Pelc, K.L. Wedding, C.K. Zarins, C.A. Taylor (2002) Quantification of Vessel Wall Cyclic Strain Using Cine Phase Contrast MRI. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 1033-1045.

C.P. Cheng, D. Parker, C.A. Taylor (2002) Quantification of Wall Shear Stress in Large Blood Vessels Using Lagrangian Interpolation Functions with cine PC-MRI. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 1020-1032.

J. Wan, B.N. Steele, S.A. Spicer, S. Strohband, G.R. Feijoo, T.J.R. Hughes, C.A. Taylor (2002) A One-dimensional Finite Element Method for Simulation-Based Medical Planning for Cardiovascular Disease. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 195-206.

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