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An inverse modeling approach for semilunar heart valve leaflet mechanics: exploitation of tissue structure

Ankush Aggarwal Orcid Logo, Michael S. Sacks

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Volume: 15, Issue: 4, Pages: 909 - 932

Swansea University Author: Ankush Aggarwal Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s10237-015-0732-7

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Determining the biomechanical behavior of heart valve leaflet tissues in a noninvasive manner remains an important clinical goal. While advances in 3D imaging modalities have made in vivo valve geometric data available, optimal methods to exploit such information in order to obtain functional inform...

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ISSN: 1617-7959
Published: 2016
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title An inverse modeling approach for semilunar heart valve leaflet mechanics: exploitation of tissue structure
spellingShingle An inverse modeling approach for semilunar heart valve leaflet mechanics: exploitation of tissue structure
Ankush Aggarwal
title_short An inverse modeling approach for semilunar heart valve leaflet mechanics: exploitation of tissue structure
title_full An inverse modeling approach for semilunar heart valve leaflet mechanics: exploitation of tissue structure
title_fullStr An inverse modeling approach for semilunar heart valve leaflet mechanics: exploitation of tissue structure
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description Determining the biomechanical behavior of heart valve leaflet tissues in a noninvasive manner remains an important clinical goal. While advances in 3D imaging modalities have made in vivo valve geometric data available, optimal methods to exploit such information in order to obtain functional information remain to be established. Herein we present and evaluate a novel leaflet shape-based framework to estimate the biomechanical behavior of heart valves from surface deformations by exploiting tissue structure. We determined accuracy levels using an “ideal” in vitro dataset, in which the leaflet geometry, strains, mechanical behavior, and fibrous structure were known to a high level of precision. By utilizing a simplified structural model for the leaflet mechanical behavior, we were able to limit the number of parameters to be determined per leaflet to only two. This approach allowed us to dramatically reduce the computational time and easily visualize the cost function to guide the minimization process. We determined that the image resolution and the number of available imaging frames were important components in the accuracy of our framework. Furthermore, our results suggest that it is possible to detect differences in fiber structure using our framework, thus allowing an opportunity to diagnose asymptomatic valve diseases and begin treatment at their early stages. Lastly, we observed good agreement of the final resulting stress–strain response when an averaged fiber architecture was used. This suggests that population-averaged fiber structural data may be sufficient for the application of the present framework to in vivo studies, although clearly much work remains to extend the present approach to in vivo problems.
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