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Central cross sections of the two leaflets of the original healthy valve (solid blue), pathological valve (short-dashed red), and repaired valve (long-dashed green). Leaflet intersection with the annulus is denoted by diamond markers. Pairwise root-mean-square differences were 1.3mm (healthy-pathological), 0.5mm (healthy-repaired), and 1.7mm (repaired-pathological).
