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Published in final edited form as: Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2015 May 7;14(6):1281–1302. doi: 10.1007/s10237-015-0674-0

Table 2.

Comparisons of the displacement errors evaluated at the fiducial marker positions of the MV leaflets for FE numerical predictions with various levels of model fidelity

MVAL
MVPL
Mean ± SD (mm) Max/Min (mm) Mean ± SD (mm) Max/Min (mm)
30 mmHg transvalvular pressure
FE predictions—Level I 0.368 ± 0.174 0.774/0.014 0.325 ± 0.175 0.867/0.076
FE predictions—Level II 0.208 ± 0.117 0.591/0.012 0.277 ± 0.103 0.564/0.072
FE predictions—Level III 0.117 ± 0.081 0.342/0.012 0.231 ± 0.083 0.454/0.067
FE predictions—Level IV 0.096 ± 0.049 0.258/0.005 0.194 ± 0.061 0.405/0.078
70 mmHg transvalvular pressure
FE predictions—Level I 0.531 ± 0.257 0.931/0.019 0.516 ± 0.302 1.197/0.093
FE predictions—Level II 0.337 ± 0.179 0.708/0.016 0.413 ± 0.199 0.907/0.082
FE predictions—Level III 0.183 ± 0.131 0.563/0.013 0.299 ± 0.112 0.609/0.081
FE predictions—Level IV 0.128 ± 0.085 0.425/0.007 0.257 ± 0.089 0.475/0.061