Lucas H. Timmins

Lucas H. Timmins, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences, Academic Institute
Houston Methodist


Publications

Integration of FEBIO as an Instructional Tool in the Undergraduate Biomechanics Curriculum
Jiang, D, Grainger, DW, Weiss, JA & Timmins, LH 2024, , Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, vol. 146, no. 5, BIO-23-1310. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064990

Influence of material parameter variability on the predicted coronary artery biomechanical environment via uncertainty quantification
Berggren, CC, Jiang, D, Jack Wang, YF, Bergquist, JA, Rupp, LC, Liu, Z, MacLeod, RS, Narayan, A & Timmins, LH 2024, , Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 927-940. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-023-01814-2

Sleeve gastrectomy may improve arterial health in obese adolescents
Hoffmann, C, Morris, A, Timmins, L, Cui, X, Sachdeva, R, Walsh, S, Wulkan, M & Brewster, L 2023, , Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 2053-2054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2023.07.001

Collagen Molecular Damage is a Hallmark of Early Atherosclerosis Development
Smith, KA, Lin, AH, Stevens, AH, Yu, SM, Weiss, JA & Timmins, LH 2023, , Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 463-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12265-022-10316-y

Comparison of Prospective and Retrospective Gated 4D Flow Cardiac MR Image Acquisitions in the Carotid Bifurcation
Hurd, ER, Han, M, Mendes, JK, Hadley, JR, Johnson, CR, DiBella, EVR, Oshinski, JN & Timmins, LH 2023, , Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13239-022-00630-6

Flow-based method demonstrates improved accuracy for calculating wall shear stress in arterial flows from 4D flow MRI data
Hurd, ER, Iffrig, E, Jiang, D, Oshinski, JN & Timmins, LH 2023, , Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 146, 111413, pp. 111413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2022.111413

Model-Directed Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
Cosgriff-Hernandez, E & Timmins, LH 2022, , ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 4622-4624. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c01386

A New Method for Quantifying Abdominal Aortic Wall Shear Stress Using Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Womersley Solution
Iffrig, E, Timmins, LH, El Sayed, R, Taylor, WR & Oshinski, JN 2022, , Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, vol. 144, no. 9. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054236

A Nonparametric Approach for Estimating Three-Dimensional Fiber Orientation Distribution Functions (ODFs) in Fibrous Materials
Rauff, A, Timmins, LH, Whitaker, RT & Weiss, JA 2022, , IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 446-455. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2021.3115716

Effect of Subject-Specific, Spatially Reduced, and Idealized Boundary Conditions on the Predicted Hemodynamic Environment in the Murine Aorta
Smith, KA, Merchant, SS, Hsu, EW & Timmins, LH 2021, , Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 3255-3266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-021-02851-7

Corrigendum to ```On the use of constrained reactive mixtures of solids to model finite deformation isothermal elastoplasticity and elastoplastic damage mechanics' [Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 155 (2021) 104534]'' (Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2021) 155, (S0022509621001940), (10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104534))
Zimmerman, BK, Jiang, D, Weiss, JA, Timmins, LH & Ateshian, GA 2021, , Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 157, 104644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104644

Considerations for analysis of endothelial shear stress and strain in FSI models of atherosclerosis
Patel, M, Savvopoulos, F, Berggren, CC, Aslanidou, L, Timmins, LH, de Silva, R, Pedrigi, RM & Krams, R 2021, , Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 128, 110720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110720

On the use of constrained reactive mixtures of solids to model finite deformation isothermal elastoplasticity and elastoplastic damage mechanics
Zimmerman, BK, Jiang, D, Weiss, JA, Timmins, LH & Ateshian, GA 2021, , Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 155, 104534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104534

Effect of Patient-Specific Coronary Flow Reserve Values on the Accuracy of MRI-Based Virtual Fractional Flow Reserve
Hair, J, Timmins, L, El Sayed, R, Samady, H & Oshinski, J 2021, , Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, vol. 8, 663767. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.663767

Effect of regional analysis methods on assessing the association between wall shear stress and coronary artery disease progression in the clinical setting
Timmins, LH, Samady, H & Oshinski, JN 2021, . in Biomechanics of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque: From Model to Patient. Elsevier, pp. 203-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817195-0.00009-3

Catheter-based optical approaches for cardiovascular medicine: Progress, challenges and new directions
Huang, C, Knighton, N, Timmins, LH & Sachse, FB 2020, , Progress in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 2, no. 3, 032001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1091/ab8af8

Expert recommendations on the assessment of wall shear stress in human coronary arteries: Existing methodologies, technical considerations, and clinical applications
Gijsen, F, Katagiri, Y, Barlis, P, Bourantas, C, Collet, C, Coskun, U, Daemen, J, Dijkstra, J, Edelman, E, Evans, P, Van Der Heiden, K, Hose, R, Koo, BK, Krams, R, Marsden, A, Migliavacca, F, Onuma, Y, Ooi, A, Poon, E, Samady, H, Stone, P, Takahashi, K, Tang, D, Thondapu, V, Tenekecioglu, E, Timmins, L, Torii, R, Wentzel, J & Serruys, P 2019, , European heart journal, vol. 40, no. 41, pp. 3421-3433. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz551

The influence of multidirectional shear stress on plaque progression and composition changes in human coronary arteries
Kok, AM, Molony, DS, Timmins, LH, Ko, YA, Boersma, E, Eshtehardi, P, Wentzel, JJ & Samady, H 2019, , EuroIntervention, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 692-699. https://doi.org/10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00529

Impact of combined plaque structural stress and wall shear stress on coronary plaque progression, regression, and changes in composition
Costopoulos, C, Timmins, LH, Huang, Y, Hung, OY, Molony, DS, Brown, AJ, Davis, EL, Teng, Z, Gillard, JH, Samady, H & Bennett, MR 2019, , European heart journal, vol. 40, no. 18, pp. 1411-1422. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz132

Establishment of an Automated Algorithm Utilizing Optical Coherence Tomography and Micro-Computed Tomography Imaging to Reconstruct the 3-D Deformed Stent Geometry
Elliott, MR, Kim, D, Molony, DS, Morris, L, Samady, H, Joshi, S & Timmins, LH 2019, , IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 38, no. 3, 8466919, pp. 710-720. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2018.2870714

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