Regurgitant flow field characteristics of the St. Jude bileaflet mechanical heart valve under physiologic pulsatile flow using particle image velocimetry

Artificial Organs

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 840-846

  Manning, Keefe B ^a   Kini, Vinayak ^a   Fontaine, Arnold A ^a   Deutsch, Steven ^a   Tarbell, John M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Heart valve; Particle image velocimetry; Regurgitation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART; BLOOD; CAVITATION; DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEART; HEART VALVE PROSTHESES; PULSATILE FLOW; VALVES (MECHANICAL); VELOCIMETERS; VORTEX FLOW;

BILEAFLET MECHANICAL HEART VALVES; FLOW FIELD CHARACTERISTICS; FLOW VISUALISATION; HEART VALVES; IN-VITRO; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETRY; MECHANICAL HEART VALVES; REGURGITATION; THROMBUS FORMATION; ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; BJOERK SHILEY VALVE PROSTHESIS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETER; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; HEMOLYSIS; HYPOBARISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; VORTEX MOTION;

THROMBUS;

EID: 0043236252     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2003.07194.x     Document Type: Article

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