Observation of Cavitation in a Mechanical Heart Valve in a Total Artificial Heart

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-210

  Lee, Hwansung ^a   Tsukiya, Tomonori ^a   Homma, Akihiko ^a   Kamimura, Tadayuki ^a   Takewa, Yoshiaki ^a   Nishinaka, Tomohiro ^a   Tatsumi, Eisuke ^a   Taenaka, Yoshiyuki ^a   Takano, Hisateru ^a   Kitamura, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE FIXATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESES; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

CAVITATION BUBBLES; DISK CLOSING MOTION; LASER DISPLACEMENT SENSORS; OMNICARBON VALVES;

CAVITATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; HEART RATE; HEART VALVE; LASER; MITRAL VALVE; SIMULATION; VIDEORECORDER;

BIOMECHANICS; CARDIAC OUTPUT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART, ARTIFICIAL; MITRAL VALVE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE;

EID: 2342496709     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MAT.0000123639.59051.C9     Document Type: Article

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