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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 17.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Thorac Surg. 2010 May;89(5):1546–1553. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.02.036

Table 2.

Mitral valve leaflet material properties corresponding to the constitutive law from Quapp and Weiss. [34] The subscript ‘cir’ represents the exponential response in the circumferential direction and the subscript ‘rad’ represents the radial direction.

Leaflet C1 (kPa) C2 (kPa) C3,cir (kPa) C3,cir C4,rad (kPa) C4,rad
Anterior 100 0.0 1.5 25 1.0 23
Posterior 40 0.0 3.0 16 1.0 16