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Annular area and perimeter as measured at the insertion point of the 3 cusps (blue contour), and supra-annular measurement obtained using the intercommisural distance (green arrow) from which a circle is defined to allow perimeter and area calculation (green contour).
Reproduced from reference #36. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)
