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SUBMITTER: Lankhaar JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3233835 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lankhaar Jan-Willem JW Rövekamp Fleur A FA Steendijk Paul P Faes Theo J C TJ Westerhof Berend E BE Kind Taco T Vonk-Noordegraaf Anton A Westerhof Nico N
Annals of biomedical engineering 20090625 9
Simulations are useful to study the heart's ability to generate flow and the interaction between contractility and loading conditions. The left ventricular pressure-volume (PV) relation has been shown to be nonlinear, but it is unknown whether a linear model is accurate enough for simulations. Six models were fitted to the PV-data measured in five sheep and the estimated parameters were used to simulate PV-loops. Simulated and measured PV-loops were compared with the Akaike information criterion ...[more]