Numerical dye washout method as a tool for characterizing the heart valve flow: Study of three standard mechanical heart valves

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-57

  Goubergrits, Leonid ^a   Kertzscher, Ulrich ^a   Affeld, Klaus ^a   Petz, Christoph ^b   Stalling, Detlev ^b   Hege, Hans Christian ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE DROP;

DYE WASHOUT METHOD; HALF DYE TIME (HDT); VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES;

CARDIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BJOERK SHILEY VALVE PROSTHESIS; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; FLOW KINETICS; GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUMERICAL DYE WASHOUT METHOD; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; SIMULATION; STARR EDWARDS VALVE PROSTHESIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOGENESIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANIMALS; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PULSATILE FLOW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 38349179182     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAT.0b013e31815c5e38     Document Type: Article

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