Distribution of active fiber stress at the beginning of ejection depends on left-ventricular shape

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2638-2641

  Choi, Hon Fai ^a   D'hooge, Jan ^a   Rademakers, Frank E ^a   Claus, Piet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FIBERS; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; EIKONAL; EJECTION PHASE; END-DIASTOLIC; FIBER STRESS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FINITE-ELEMENT STUDY; IN-FIBER; INCOMPRESSIBLE HYPERELASTIC MATERIAL; LEFT VENTRICLES; MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPIC; VOLUME CONSTANTS; WALL MECHANICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SPHERES; THERMOELECTRICITY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

FIBERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIASTOLE; DIFFUSION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIASTOLE; DIFFUSION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 78650828318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626564     Document Type: Conference Paper

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