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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2011 Oct 13;25(1):121–128. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2011.09.001

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The model used in this study and a screen shot of the digital controls of the device. A freshly harvested pig heart is mounted on the rotary plate through the LV base with the apex stabilized and connected to a pulsatile pump through a balloon secured in the LV cavity. The digital interface was used to synchronize rotational, linear, and pulsatile motion to simulate physiologic motion of heart.