Evaluation technique for bileaflet mechanical valves

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 275-282

  Shipkowitz, Tanya ^a   Ambrus, Jeffrey ^a   Kurk, James ^a   Wickramasinghe, Kosala ^b  

^a St Jude Medical Inc USA   (United States)

^b Eng Systems Intl North America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; VIDEORECORDING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULSATILE FLOW; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0036513893     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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