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Cardiac perfusion and pumping engineering
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- ISBN: 9789812775597 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9812775595 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 583 p.) : ill. (some col.).
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electronic resource - Publisher: Singapore ; New Jersey : World Scientific, c2007.
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| General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Section I. Cardiac perfusion. ch. 1. Physiomics of coronary perfusion and cardiac pumping. ch, 2. Left ventricular inhomogeneity and the heart's functional reserve. ch. 3. Quantification of cardiac perfusion and function using nuclear cardiac imaging. ch. 4. Regional mechanics of the beating heart. ch. 5. Left ventricular (LV) pumping-perfusion analysis: myocardial properties, intra-LV velocity and pressure, detection of myocardial ischemic and infarcted segments, perfusion depiction by SPECT imaging, computation of blood flow pressure and velocity patterns within myocardial regions -- Section II. Cardiac pumping characteristics. ch. 6. Left ventricular (LV) pressure increase mechanism during isovolumic contraction, and determination of the equivalent LV myocardial fibers orientation. ch. 7. Left ventricular filling performance characteristics. ch. 8. New clininically relevant left ventricular contractility index (based on normalized wall stress). ch. 9. Characterization of cardiac dysfunction during systolic ejection. ch. 10. Strain analysis and visualization of LV deformation during a cardiac cycle, as an index of contractility -- section III. Assisted perfusion and pumping and myocardial repair. ch. 11. Augmented myocardial perfusion by coronary bypass surgical procedure: emphasizing flow and shear stress analysis at proximal and distal anastomotic sites providing the basis of better graft papency rates. ch. 12. Numerical simulation and PIV measurement of two proximal anastomosis models. ch. 13. Mechanical circulatory support systems. ch. 14. Development of an axial blood pump. ch. 15. Mathematical modeling of ventricular-assist devices. ch. 16. Tissue engineering for the infarcted heart: cell transplantation therapy. ch. 17. Tissue engineering of artificial heart tissue. |
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