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. 2016 May 31;16:40. doi: 10.1186/s12880-016-0142-z

Fig. 9.

Fig. 9

Input surface models of the studied patients post-aortic coarctation repair (a) and computed template (b). Computational surface meshes of 20 aortic arches constituted the input for the shape analysis (a). Coronary arteries and head and neck vessels were removed prior to analysis (3D rotatable models of the arches can be found under www.ucl.ac.uk/cardiac-engineering/research/library-of-3d-anatomies/congenital_defects/coarctations ). The final template (mean shape, blue) computed on the entire population (N = 20 subjects) shows characteristic shape features associated with CoA such as a narrowing in the transverse and isthmus arch section as well as a slightly dilated aortic root and an overall slightly gothic and tortuous arch shape (b)