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We present a computational framework for the study of cardiac motion. The bio-mechanical model captures the passive and active properties of the cardiac tissue as well as the fiber architecture. We focus on the analysis of deformations of a beating left ventricle (LV), comparing numerical simulations with real data acquired by echocardiography. The goal is to determine the clinical relevance of the LV strains pattern and to investigate the relationships between that pattern and the arrangement of myocardial fibers. The proposed framework could in principle be used for a wide range of clinical applications.
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我们提出了一个研究心脏运动的计算框架. 生物力学模型捕捉了心脏组织以及纤维结构的被动和主动特性. 我们专注于分析 搏动左心室(LV)的变形, 用超声心动图获得的真实数据进行数值模拟. 目的是确定LV菌株模式的临床相关性, 并调查其关系在这种模 式和心肌纤维的排列之间. 拟议的框架原则上可用于广泛的临床应用.
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This work was supported by the Italian Minister for Education, Research, and University (Grant No. 2017KL4EF3), and “Sapienza” Università di Roma (Grant No. RM120172A77FB346). We aknowledge the Italian Group of Mathematical Physics (GNFM-INdAM), and the French-Italian International Research Program (IRP) Coss&Vita for support.
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Colorado-Cervantes, J.I., Nardinocchi, P., Piras, P. et al. Patient-specific modeling of left ventricle mechanics. Acta Mech. Sin. 38, 621211 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-021-09041-0
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