Effect of the sinus of valsalva on the closing motion of bileaflet prosthetic heart valves

Artificial Organs

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 308-312

  Ohta, Yuji ^a   Kikuta, Yukiaki ^b   Shimooka, Toshiyuki ^c   Mitamura, Yoshinori ^c   Yuhta, Toshio ^d   Dohi, Takeyoshi ^e  

^a TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokai Rubber Industries Ltd   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bileaflet valve; Closing mechanism; High speed charge coupled device camera; Sinus of Valsalva

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CCD CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; VALVES (MECHANICAL); VIDEO CAMERAS; VORTEX FLOW;

BACK FLOW; BILEAFLET; BILEAFLET VALVE; CARBOMEDICS VALVE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES CAMERA; CLOSING MECHANISM; HIGH SPEED; HIGH SPEED CHARGE- COUPLED DEVICE CAMERA; PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE; SINUS OF VALSALVA;

SILICONES;

ALUMINUM; POLYSTYRENE; SILASTIC; ALLOY;

AORTA SINUS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEVISION CAMERA; AORTA VALVE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ALLOYS; ALUMINUM; AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOVEMENT; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; SINUS OF VALSALVA; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0034017795     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2000.06534-2.x     Document Type: Article

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