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Engineering and Technology
New Zealand
2025

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
47
Citations
7122
World Ranking
4965
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Nicolas P. Smith is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a specialization in surgery and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. The scientist's work bridges several subfields, including biophysics, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as public health, environmental, and occupational health.

Their scholarly output spans multiple topics within cardiovascular and surgical sciences. The main areas of research include:

  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Anesthesia and Pain Management

There are five recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Nicolas P. Smith, illustrating a focus on cardiac surgery, imaging, and computational modeling related to coronary and cardiac function:

  • "It's clearly the heart! Optical transparency, cardiac tissue imaging, and computer modelling", 2021, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • "Impact of opioid-free analgesia on pain severity and patient satisfaction after discharge from surgery: multispecialty, prospective cohort study in 25 countries", 2024, British journal of surgery
  • "A predictive patient-specific computational model of coronary artery bypass grafts for potential use by cardiac surgeons to guide selection of graft configurations", 2022, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • "Personalized surgical planning for coronary bypass graft configurations using patient-specific computational modeling to avoid flow competition in arterial grafts", 2023, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • "Extended-volume image-derived models of coronary microcirculation", 2023, Microcirculation

Smith frequently publishes in the following academic venues:

  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • British journal of surgery
  • Microcirculation
  • UNC Libraries

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, most often with:

  • William Xu
  • Sarah Goh
  • Gregory B. Sands
  • Bruce H. Smaill
  • Gordon Liu

Best Publications

  • An anatomically based model of transient coronary blood flow in the heart

    N. P. Smith;A. J. Pullan;P. J. Hunter

  • Computational physiology and the Physiome Project.

    Edmund J. Crampin;Edmund J. Crampin;Matthew Halstead;Peter Hunter;Poul Nielsen

  • A Quantitative Analysis of Cardiac Myocyte Relaxation: A Simulation Study

    Steven Niederer;Peter Hunter;Nicolas Smith

  • Coupling multi-physics models to cardiac mechanics.

    David Nordsletten;SA Niederer;Martyn Nash;Peter Hunter

  • Structural morphology of renal vasculature

    David A. Nordsletten;Shane Blackett;Michael D. Bentley;Erik L. Ritman

  • A model of cardiac contraction based on novel measurements of tension development in human cardiomyocytes

    Sander Land;So Jin Park-Holohan;Nicolas P. Smith;Cristobal G. dos Remedios

  • Multiscale computational modelling of the heart

    N. P. Smith;D. P. Nickerson;E. J. Crampin;P. J. Hunter

  • A Meta Analysis of cardiac electrophysiology computational models

    Steven A. Niederer;M. Fink;D. Noble;Nicolas Smith

  • Three-dimensional models of individual cardiac histoanatomy: tools and challenges.

    Rebecca A.B. Burton;Gernot Plank;Jürgen E. Schneider;Vicente Grau

  • An improved numerical method for strong coupling of excitation and contraction models in the heart

    Steven A. Niederer;Nicolas P. Smith;Nicolas P. Smith

  • Generation of an anatomically based geometric coronary model.

    N P Smith;A J Pullan;P J Hunter

  • Verification of cardiac mechanics software: benchmark problems and solutions for testing active and passive material behaviour

    Sander Land;Viatcheslav Gurev;Sander Arens;Christoph M. Augustin

  • Development of models of active ion transport for whole-cell modelling: cardiac sodium-potassium pump as a case study.

    Nicolas Smith;E J Crampin;E J Crampin

  • New developments in a strongly coupled cardiac electromechanical model

    David Nickerson;Nicolas Smith;Peter Hunter

  • Automatic segmentation of 3D micro-CT coronary vascular images.

    Jack Lee;Patricia Beighley;Erik Ritman;Nicolas Smith

  • Fluid–solid coupling for the investigation of diastolic and systolic human left ventricular function

    D Nordsletten;M McCormick;PJ Kilner;Peter Hunter

  • A novel porous mechanical framework for modelling the interaction between coronary perfusion and myocardial mechanics

    Andrew Cookson;Jack Lee;Christian Michler;Radomir Chabiniok

  • Beyond Bernoulli: Improving the Accuracy and Precision of Noninvasive Estimation of Peak Pressure Drops

    Fabrizio Donati;Saul Myerson;Malenka M. Bissell;Nicolas P. Smith

  • The Multi-Scale Modelling of Coronary Blood Flow

    Jack Lee;Nicolas P. Smith

  • A Thermodynamic Model of the Cardiac Sarcoplasmic/Endoplasmic Ca2+ (SERCA) Pump

    Kenneth Tran;Nicolas P. Smith;Denis S. Loiselle;Edmund J. Crampin

  • Estimation of passive and active properties in the human heart using 3D tagged MRI

    Liya Asner;Myrianthi Hadjicharalambous;Radomir Chabiniok;Devis Peresutti

  • A computationally efficient framework for the simulation of cardiac perfusion using a multi-compartment Darcy porous-media flow model

    C Michler;Andrew Cookson;Radomir Chabiniok;E Hyde

  • An analysis of deformation-dependent electromechanical coupling in the mouse heart

    Sander Land;Steven A. Niederer;Jan Magnus Aronsen;Jan Magnus Aronsen;Emil K. S. Espe;Emil K. S. Espe

  • Integration from proteins to organs: the IUPS Physiome Project.

    Peter Hunter;Nicolas Smith;Justin Fernandez;Merryn Tawhai

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Hunter
Peter Hunter University of Auckland
Edmund J. Crampin
Edmund J. Crampin University of Melbourne
Reza Razavi
Reza Razavi King's College London
Gernot Plank
Gernot Plank Medical University of Graz
Andrew J. Pullan
Andrew J. Pullan University of Auckland
John F. Thompson
John F. Thompson University of Sydney
Leo K. Cheng
Leo K. Cheng University of Auckland
Martyn P. Nash
Martyn P. Nash University of Auckland
Eike Nagel
Eike Nagel Goethe University Frankfurt
P. Rod Dunbar
P. Rod Dunbar University of Auckland

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