Journal: JTCVS open
Article Title: Bioprosthetic aortic valve diameter and thickness are directly related to leaflet fluttering: Results from a combined experimental and computational modeling study
doi: 10.1016/j.xjon.2020.09.002
Figure Lengend Snippet: Experimental and computational pulse duplicators. A, Customized pulse duplicator with electro-optical subsystem for measuring aortic valve projected dynamic valve area. B, Computer model of the aortic valve test section in the pulse duplicator with pericardial bioprosthetic heart valve (BHV) and reduced-order models of the upstream and downstream system components. C, Three-dimensional rendering of the model BHV leaflets. Leaflet kinematics are detailed on the highlighted cross-sections in and .
Article Snippet: However, our computational model uses a generic pericardial BHV leaflet biomechanics model that was not tuned in any way to match the properties of the Labcor BHVs.
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