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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2007 Sep 5;28(35):5390–5398. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.08.021

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Typical cardiac cycle data for a TGA-MABP valvuloplasty site instrumented with sonomicrometry crystals representing: (a) implant area, (b) areal strain, and (c) individual strain component responses. Smooth responses in deformation were consistently observed, with changes in implant area of ~16% in this example under full systolic loading. Note that in (c) while the total area increased, principal strains were large and positive in the radial direction yet small and contractile in the circumferential direction. Glutaraldehyde pretreated valvuloplasty implants demonstrated comparable results (data not shown).