Transmural Heterogeneity of Mechanics in the Normal Heart

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Transmural Heterogeneity of Mechanics in the
Normal Heart

• M. Amalia Prada Fernandez
• Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
• August 1, 2008

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Project Goal

• The goal of this project is to investigate the
  optimal cell property variations across the
  cardiac wall to get the most uniform contraction
  of the left ventricle. We will be varying
  parameters such as the peak stress and the twitch
  duration independently or as a combination of
  parameters to find the most uniform contraction
  possible.

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Progress

• Continuity works with Nimrod!
• Continued learning about programming in python.
• Wrote the python script that opens and reads the
  hemodata file, and finds the beginning and end
  of ejection from that file.

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Short Term Goals

• Continue working on the python script
• To read the ejection strains for the beginning
  and end ejection time points.
• To calculate the ejection strain for each mesh
  node.
• To calculate its average and standard deviation.
• Start running Continuity script on Nimrod.

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Successes/Road blocks

• The roadblocks have been my lack of experience in
  programming.
• And the success is that I got the first part of
  the python script working!

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Welcome to Melbourne!
Exploring all the streets of Melbourne! I mean
all! ?
And the beautiful Phillip Island.