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Artificial Heart Valves and Vascular Implants
Mechanical evaluation of artificial heart
valves and ventricular assist devices; closing dynamics of mechanical
heart valves, cavitation bubble visualization, negative pressure transients,
and velocity of valves during closure, simulation of closing dynamics,
correlation of mechanical stresses due to valve closure and thrombus deposition,
in vivo measurement of negative pressure transients.
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Hemodynamics, Fluid Dynamics in Curved Tubes
Experimental and computational flow dynamics
simulation of flow in the human aorta, three-dimensional flow analysis
in the aorta and aortic bifurcation, flow dynamics and wall shear stress
computation in vessels with lesions, three-dimensional reconstruction
of arterial segments from intravascular ultrasound imaging and computational
flow analysis, fluid dynamic analysis in vascular graft anastamosis.
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Cardiovascular
Mechanics, Cardiovascular Imaging (3-D Reconstruction, Mechanical Analysis)
Three-dimensional reconstruction of the human
left ventricle and vascular segments from various imaging modalities (vascular
and cardiac ultrasound, cine comuted tomography and magnetic resonance
imaging), analysis of regional material property distribution in normal
and diseased cardiac and vascular segments using finite element analysis
and optimization, analysis of vascular reactivity with the onset of atherosclerosis.
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