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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 17.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2016 Dec 19;45(2):378–393. doi: 10.1007/s10439-016-1775-3

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1.

Photographs of excised ovine MV: (a) overall view of a CT structure, (b) close-up showing the intricate branching of MV CT. The CT structure of each valve is comprised of about 10–20 individual chords, each of which split into several segments before inserting into the leaflets.