This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. This proposal builds on previous measurement of regional stress and ventricular function after aneurysm application in the sheep aneurysm model. It will measure regional LV material properties before and after aneurysm repair with a biaxial stretching apparatus. Those ex-vivo measurements will be confirmed from magnetic resonance measurements of regional cardiac deformation which in conjunction with knowledge of regional cardiac architecture and previously developed finite element techniques will be used to calculate regional in-vivo cardiac material properties. We rely heavily on the finite element software Continuity to analyze the effects of changes in left ventricular geometry and myocardial material properties on global and regional ventricular function.
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