Three-dimensional thoracic modeling for an anatomical compatibility study of the implantable total artificial heart

Artificial Organs

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 229-234

  Zhang, Bin ^a,b   Masuzawa, Toru ^a   Tatsumi, Eisuke ^a   Taenaka, Yoshiyuki ^a   Uyama, Chikao ^a   Takano, Hisateru ^a   Takamiya, Makoto ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anatomical compatibility; Artificial heart; Computer simulation; Computer tomography; Surface model; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ANATOMICAL COMPATIBILITY; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; D SURFACES; OPTIMAL MORPHOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION SYSTEMS; SURFACE MODELING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEARTS;

HEART;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THORAX;

EID: 0032973774     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.1999.06313.x     Document Type: Article

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