Dr Jessica Benitez Mendieta
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Journal Articles
Wickramarachchi, Avishka, Neidlin, Michael, Khamooshi, Mehrdad, Benitez, Jessica, Wu, Eric L., Fraser, John F. and Gregory, Shaun D. (2026). Continuous vs pulsatile arterial cannula flow for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a multiscale computational fluid dynamics analysis. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 279 109304, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2026.109304
Nonaka, Hideaki, Yuan, Luke, Wu, Eric L., Bösch, Johannes, Garbutt, Michael, Kanagarajan, Dhayananth, Suen, Jacky Y., Benitez, Jessica, Pellegrino, Vincent and Fraser, John F. (2026). Impact of systemic vessel resistance and microaxial pump flow level on left ventricular workload. ASAIO Journal. doi: 10.1097/mat.0000000000002722
Guerzet Sardenberg Lima, Tiago, Freidoonimehr, Navid, Benitez Mendieta, Jessica, Anbananthan, Haveena, Yuan, Mingyang, Yu, Han, Wickrama Surendra, Yasindu and Li, Zhiyong (2026). Fidelity of wall tap pressure measurements in steady and pulsatile flow. Physics of Fluids, 38 (5) 051906, 1-11. doi: 10.1063/5.0327746
Catano, Jorge A., Ong, Louis Jun Ye, Yuan, Mingyang, Qu, Yunkun, Benitez, Jessica, Yarlagadda, Prasad K. D. V., Toh, Yi-Chin and Li, Zhiyong (2026). A patient-specific 3D printed carotid artery model integrating vascular structure, flow, and endothelium responses. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 15 (4) e02478, 1-18. doi: 10.1002/adhm.202502478
Anbananthan, Haveena, Paritala, Phani Kumari, Benitez Mendieta, Jessica, Yu, Han, Guerzet Sardenberg Lima, Tiago, Dettrick, Zoe, Liang, Ee Shern, Coulthard, Alan, Li, Zhi-Yong and Winter, Craig (2025). Haemodynamic characteristics of thin-walled regions in intracranial aneurysms: intraoperative imaging and CFD analysis. Acta Neurochirurgica, 167 (1) 238, 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s00701-025-06660-y
Yu, Han, Wang, Zidun, Wu, Hao, Zhu, Zhengduo, Wang, Jiaqiu, Fang, Runxing, Wu, Shanglin, Xie, Hujin, Huang, Xianjue, Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Anbananthan, Haveena and Li, Zhiyong (2024). In-vivo left atrial surface motion and strain measurement using novel mesh regularized image block matching method with 4D-CTA. Journal of Biomechanics, 176 112354, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2024.112354
Xie, Hujin, Yu, Han, Wu, Hao, Wang, Jiaqiu, Wu, Shanglin, Zhang, Jianjian, Zhao, Huilin, Yuan, Mingyang, Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Anbananthan, Haveena, Winter, Craig, Zhu, Chengcheng and Li, Zhiyong (2024). Quantifying irregular pulsation of intracranial aneurysms using 4D-CTA. Journal of Biomechanics, 174 112269, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2024.112269
Wang, Jiaqiu, Wu, Hao, Zhu, Zhengduo, Xie, Hujin, Yu, Han, Huang, Qiuxiang, Xiang, Yuqiao, Paritala, Phani Kumari, Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Anbananthan, Haveena, Catano, Jorge Alberto Amaya, Fang, Runxin, Wang, Luping and Li, Zhiyong (2024). Impact of speckle deformability on digital imaging correlation. IEEE Access, 12, 66466-66477. doi: 10.1109/access.2024.3398786
Xie, Hujin, Wu, Hao, Wang, Jiaqiu, Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Yu, Han, Xiang, Yuqiao, Anbananthan, Haveena, Zhang, Jianjian, Zhao, Huilin, Zhu, Zhengduo, Huang, Qiuxiang, Fang, Runxing, Zhu, Chengcheng and Li, Zhiyong (2024). Constrained estimation of intracranial aneurysm surface deformation using 4D-CTA. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 244 107975, 107975. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107975
Wang, Jiaqiu, Fang, Runxin, Wu, Hao, Xiang, Yuqiao, Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Paritala, Phani Kumari, Fan, Zhenya, Anbananthan, Haveena, Amaya Catano, Jorge Alberto, Raffel, Owen Christopher and Li, Zhiyong (2023). Impact of cyclic bending on coronary hemodynamics. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 22 (2), 729-738. doi: 10.1007/s10237-022-01677-z
Benitez, Jessica, Fontanarosa, Davide, Wang, Jiaqiu, Paritala, Phani Kumari, Muller, Juanita, Lloyd, Thomas and Li, Zhi-Yong (2023). MRI-based mechanical analysis of carotid atherosclerotic plaque using a material-property-mapping approach: A material-property-mapping method for plaque stress analysis. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 231 107417, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107417
Paritala, Phani Kumari, Anbananthan, Haveena, Hautaniemi, Jacob, Smith, Macauley, George, Antony, Allenby, Mark, Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Wang, Jiaqiu, Maclachlan, Liam, Liang, EeShern, Prior, Marita, Yarlagadda, Prasad K D V, Winter, Craig and Li, Zhiyong (2023). Reproducibility of the computational fluid dynamic analysis of a cerebral aneurysm monitored over a decade. Scientific Reports, 13 (1) 219, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-27354-w
Xiang, Yuqiao, Huang, Xianjue, Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Wang, Jiaqiu, Paritala, Phani Kumari, Lloyd, Thomas and Li, Zhiyong (2022). The need to shift from morphological to structural assessment for carotid plaque vulnerability. Biomedicines, 10 (12) 3038, 1-12. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10123038
Wang, Luping, Wang, Jiaqiu, Chen, Qiang, Li, Qiwei, Mendieta, Jessica Benitez and Li, Zhiyong (2022). How getting twisted in scaffold design can promote bone regeneration: A fluid-structure interaction evaluation. Journal of Biomechanics, 145 111359. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2022.111359
Paritala, Phani Kumari, Yarlagadda, Tejasri, Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Wang, Jiaqiu, McGahan, Tim, Lloyd, Thomas, Yarlagadda, Prasad K.D.V. and Li, Zhiyong (2021). Plaque longitudinal heterogeneity in morphology, property, and mechanobiology. Cerebrovascular Diseases, 50 (5), 1-10. doi: 10.1159/000515690
Benitez, Jessica, Fontanarosa, Davide, Wang, Jiaqiu, Paritala, Phani Kumari, McGahan, Tim, Lloyd, Thomas and Li, Zhiyong (2020). Evaluating the impact of calcification on plaque vulnerability from the aspect of mechanical interaction between blood flow and artery based on MRI. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 49 (4), 1169-1182. doi: 10.1007/s10439-020-02655-1
Fontanarosa, Davide, Benitez, Jessica, Talkhani, Sana, Fielding, Andrew, Entezam, Amir, Trapp, Jamie, Moi, Davide, Biasi, Giordano, Petasecca, Marco and Mazzieri, Roberta (2020). A novel add-on collimator for preclinical radiotherapy applications using a standard cell irradiator: design, construction, and validation. Medical Physics, 47 (6), 2461-2471. doi: 10.1002/mp.14110
Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Fontanarosa, Davide, Wang, Jiaqiu, Paritala, Phani Kumari, McGahan, Tim, Lloyd, Thomas and Li, Zhiyong (2020). The importance of blood rheology in patient-specific computational fluid dynamics simulation of stenotic carotid arteries. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 19 (5), 1477-1490. doi: 10.1007/s10237-019-01282-7
Wang, Jiaqiu, Paritala, Phani Kumari, Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Komori, Yo, Raffel, Owen Christopher, Gu, Yuantong and Li, Zhiyong (2020). Optical coherence tomography-based patient-specific coronary artery reconstruction and fluid–structure interaction simulation. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 19 (1), 7-20. doi: 10.1007/s10237-019-01191-9
Fielding, Andrew L., Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Maxwell, Sarah and Jones, Catherine (2019). The effect of respiratory motion on electronic portal imaging device dosimetry. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 20 (3), 45-55. doi: 10.1002/acm2.12541
Conference Papers
Garbutt, Michael, Grant, Oriane, Nonaka, Hideaki, Bosch, Johannes, Benitez, Jessica, Fraser, John F. and Wu, Eric L. (2025). Evaluation of cardiac output estimation with veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support: in vitro study. 47th International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society-EMBC-Annual, Copenhagen Denmark, Jul 14-18, 2025. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/EMBC58623.2025.11251892
Mendieta, Jessica Benitez, Paritala, Phani Kumari, Wang, Jiaqiu and Li, Zhiyong (2022). Imaging-based patient-specific biomechanical evaluation of atherosclerosis and aneurysm: a comparison between structural-only, fluid-only and fluid-structure interaction analysis. MICCAI 2021 Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop, Strasbourg, France, 27 September-1 October 2021. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-09327-2_4