Diana M. Gaitan
Research Summary
Aortic Valve project
The long-term goal of this study is to develop an accurate, robust and physiologically realistic numerical model capable of simulating tissue valve dynamics. A pulsatile flow loop that reproduces physiological aortic pressure is being used for studying the strain of the aortic valve leaflets by tracking different markers placed in the area of interest. The track and strain maps are computed by software.