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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Heart Lung Transplant. 2009 Feb 13;28(4):388–394. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.12.018

Figure 2. Region-based Left Ventricular Finite Element Model.

Figure 2

The attachment points of the right ventricular free wall to the LV septum serve as fiducial landmarks to consistently and uniformly divide the left ventricle into six standardized clinically relevant regions. Each region is then divided into basal, mid-ventricular, and apical segments. The standardized finite element mesh for the LV model therefore consists of six hexahedral elements each for the basal and mid-ventricular regions of the LV and six pentahedral elements covering the apex.