Comparative Finite Element Model Analysis of Ascending Aortic Flow in Bicuspid and Tricuspid Aortic Valve

Artificial Organs

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1114-1120

  Viscardi, Francesca ^a   Vergara, Christian ^b   Antiga, Luca ^c   Merelli, Sabrina ^c   Veneziani, Alessandro ^d   Puppini, Giovanni ^a   Faggian, Giuseppe ^a   Mazzucco, Alessandro ^a   Luciani, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^c MARIO NEGRI INST PHARMACOL RES   (Italy)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascending aorta; Bicuspid aortic valve; Finite element model; Hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW VELOCITY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; VELOCITY;

AORTIC FLOW; AORTIC VALVES; ASCENDING AORTA; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING (FEM); FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING ANALYSIS; HAEMODYNAMICS; VALVE DISEASE; VALVE GEOMETRY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; AORTA; AORTA ANNULUS; AORTA FLOW; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINOTUBULAR JUNCTION;

EID: 78650162148     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2009.00989.x     Document Type: Article

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