Fig. 1.

The geometry of the prosthetic aortic valve (a) imaged using a MicroCT scanner system and reconstructed using Mimics, (b) after meshing in ANSYS (the leaflets were evenly meshed resulting in 3,600 eight-noded brick elements for the whole valve), and (c) experimental data of a glutaraldehyde-fixed bovine pericardium from Ref. [21] (solid circles) fitted to Guccione’s model (solid lines); blue and red colors represent the data pertaining to fiber and cross-fiber directions, respectively