Computational simulations of the aortic valve validated by imaging data: Evaluation of valve-sparing techniques

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 373-378

  Ranga, Adrian ^a,b   Bouchot, Olivier ^c   Mongrain, Rosaire ^a   Ugolini, Patricia ^c   Cartier, Raymond ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Fluid structure interaction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Numerical modeling; Valve sparing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMPLANTATION; SIMULATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33746766295     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2005.121483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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