The Visualization and Measurement of Left Ventricular Deformation

While medical progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases it remains the biggest killer in the western world. Cardiovascular diseases cause considerable morbidity and the prognosis after heart failure is poor. An improved understanding of cardiac mechanics might advance the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases. We have developed a toolkit designed for visualizing biomedical models. This paper explains techniques for visualizing and evaluating biomedical nite element models and demonstrates their application to biomedical data sets by using as an example two models of a healthy and a diseased human left ventricle. The contributions of this paper are threefold: First we apply techniques traditionally used in solid mechanics and computational uid dynamics to biomedical data. We also suggest some minor improvements and modi cations. Secondly we obtain new insight into the mechanics of the healthy and diseased left ventricle and we facilitate the understand...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: APBC
• Authors: Burkhard Wünsche
• Keywords: APBC 2003, APBC 2007, Biomedical Data, Biomedical Data Sets, Heart Diseases