Asymmetric Mechanical Properties of Porcine Aortic Sinuses

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1631-1638

  Gundiah, Namrata ^a   Kam, Kimberly ^a   Matthews, Peter B ^a   Guccione, Julius ^a   Dwyer, Harry A ^c   Saloner, David ^b   Chuter, Timothy A M ^a   Guy, T Sloane ^a   Ratcliffe, Mark B ^a   Tseng, Elaine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SINUS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; EXCISION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; AORTIC VALVE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY SINUS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MARFAN SYNDROME; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SINUS OF VALSALVA; SWINE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 43049168710     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.01.035     Document Type: Article

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