TY - GEN
T1 - Alignment maps for heart valve leaflets
AU - Tower, Theodore T.
AU - Neidert, Michael R.
AU - Tranquillo, Robert T
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Heart valve replacement motivates the need to benchmark substitutes in terms of geometry and alignment. We present an application of our polarized light imaging method to characterize native and bioartificial heart valves. We interrogated a porcine valve leaflet with elliptically polarized light and an effective circular analyzer and, using standard image processing routines and non-linear regression, generated an alignment map for the leaflet.
AB - Heart valve replacement motivates the need to benchmark substitutes in terms of geometry and alignment. We present an application of our polarized light imaging method to characterize native and bioartificial heart valves. We interrogated a porcine valve leaflet with elliptically polarized light and an effective circular analyzer and, using standard image processing routines and non-linear regression, generated an alignment map for the leaflet.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0033329279
SN - 0780356756
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
SP - 180
BT - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
PB - IEEE
T2 - Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (1st Joint BMES / EMBS)
Y2 - 13 October 1999 through 16 October 1999
ER -