Abstract
Coronary flow control mechanisms maintain the average coronary blood flow (CBF) at 4% of the cardiac output (CO) in normal adults, with no prior diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), under resting conditions. This paper explores a pulsatile sixth order lumped parameter (LP) model of the cardiovascular system (CVS) which utilizes the average CBF approximated from CO along with arterial blood pressure (ABP) waveform to estimate the coronary microvascular resistance using non-linear least square optimization technique. The CVS model includes a third order model of the coronary vascular bed and is shown to achieve phasic coronary flow. The coronary epicardial resistance is varied to emulate different degrees of stenosis and achieve realistic behavior of coronary microvascular resistance under these conditions.
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