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Bautz L, Oni OA, Sarwar T, Toraman H, Jansen O, Hövener JB, et al. Annals of 3D Printed Medicine [Internet]. 2025 May;18:100196.
This study developed a protocol for fabricating 3D-printed FD replicas to test customized FDs and support MR imaging development by providing a metal-free testing platform.
Hoffman C, Periyasamy S, Longhurst C, Medero R, Roldan-Alzate A, Speidel MA, et al. CVIR Endovasc [Internet]. 2021 Jan 7;4(1):11.
[The purpose of this study is to] assess the accuracy and precision of a quantitative 2D DSA (qDSA) technique and to determine its feasibility for in vivo measurements of blood velocity.
Ferizoli R, Karimpour P, May JM, Kyriacou PA. Sci Rep [Internet]. 2024 Jan 23;14(1):2024.
This study employs a custom-manufactured in vitro cardiovascular system with vessels of varying stiffness to test the hypothesis that PPG signals may be used to detect and assess the level of arterial stiffness under controlled conditions.
Geng R, Zhang Y, Rice J, Muehler MR, Starekova J, Rutkowski DR, et al. Motion‐robust, blood‐suppressed, reduced‐distortion diffusion MRI of the liver. Magnetic Resonance in Med [Internet]. 2023 Mar [cited 2025 May 8];89(3):908–21.
[The purpose of this study is to] evaluate feasibility and reproducibility of liver diffusion-weighted (DW) MRI using cardiac-motion-robust, blood-suppressed, reduced-distortion techniques.
Hoffman C, Periyasamy S, Longhurst C, Medero R, Roldan-Alzate A, Speidel MA, et al. CVIR Endovasc [Internet]. 2021 Jan 7;4(1):11.
[The purpose of this study is to] assess the accuracy and precision of a quantitative 2D DSA (qDSA) technique and to determine its feasibility for in vivo measurements of blood velocity.
Karimpour P, Ferizoli R, May JM, Kyriacou PA. Sensors [Internet]. 2024 Mar 5;24(5):1681.
The primary objective of this study was to explore how changes in silicone formulations influenced vessel properties and their correlation with features extracted from signals obtained from photoplethysmography (PPG) reflectance sensors in an in vitro setting.
Kaule S, Lange V, Ott R, Borowski F, Bohne E, Oldenburg J, et al. Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering [Internet]. 2022 Sep 2;8(2):683–6.
In this work, two pulse duplicator systems at our institute (2x BDC Laboratories, Wheat Ridge, CO, USA) were evaluated according to the new ISO [5840:2021] standard. The results obtained were compared intra-institutionally between the different test benches and internationally with the round-robin study to validate the developed test methodology regarding the normative requirements.
May JM, Mejía-Mejía E, Nomoni M, Budidha K, Choi C, Kyriacou PA. Sensors [Internet]. 2021 Dec 16;21(24):8421.
This study explores a controlled in vitro study to investigate the effect of continually applied contact pressure on PPG signals (signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and 17 morphological PPG features) from an artificial tissue-vessel phantom across a range of simulated blood pressure values.
Mendez K, Singh M, Willoughby P, Ncho B, Liao A, Su S, et al. Cardiovasc Eng Tech [Internet]. 2025 Jan 27.
This study introduces a novel left atrial cardiac simulator that incorporates patient-derived LAA models within a benchtop circulatory flow loop, enabling high-fidelity LAAO device testing and development.
Pravdivtseva MS, Gaidzik F, Berg P, Ulloa P, Larsen N, Jansen O, et al. Tomography [Internet]. 2022 Feb 10;8(1):457–78.
Here, we investigated the effect of spatial resolution and CS acceleration on flow measurements by using 4D flow MRI in small vessels in vitro at 3 T.
Rasooli R, Holmstrom H, Giljarhus KET, Jolma IW, Vinningland JL, de Lange C, et al. Sci Rep [Internet]. 2024 Mar 23;14(1):6941.
This study experimentally validates the effectiveness of an intracorporeally-powered venous ejector pump (VEP) in reducing IVC pressure in Fontan patients.
Sathananthan J, Sellers S, Hahn R, Cavalcante J, Asgar A, Latib A, et al. Journal of the American College of Cardiology [Internet]. 2023 Oct;82(17):B149–50.
In this in vitro bench study, we compared the hydrodynamic performance of DurAVR with other commercially available THVs simulating redo transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
Serruys P, Kawashima H, Ono M, Aben JP, Pighi M, Soliman O, et al. Structural Heart [Internet]. 2021 Jun;5:58.
[The objective of this study is to] investigate the accuracy and interobserver variability of Quantitative videodensitometric assessment of Mitral Regurgitation (QMR) after mitral valve replacement in a preclinical ovine model.
Velvaluri P, Pravdivtseva MS, Berg P, Wodarg F, Miranda RLD, Hövener J, et al. Adv Materials Technologies [Internet]. 2021 Sep;6(9):2100384.
Here a workflow to design, fabricate, and characterize novel thin-film FDs that can be individualized to meet patient-specific needs is demonstrated.
Whitehead JF, Hoffman CA, Wagner MG, Minesinger GM, Nikolau EP, Laeseke PF, et al. Medical Physics [Internet]. 2024 Apr;51(4):2468–78.
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate an interleaved x-ray imaging method which decreases the radiation dose rate associated with high frame rate qDSA while simultaneously providing low frame rate diagnostic DSA images, enabling the acquisition of both datasets in a single image sequence with a single injection of contrast agent.
Wu C, Green C, Marquez S, Monelli P, Weinberg C, Weston M, et al. Ann Cardiothorac Surg [Internet]. 2024 May;13(3):283–90.
The ISO Cardiac Valves Working Group conducted a multi-laboratory round-robin study to investigate whether the effective orifice diameter of a prosthetic surgical valve could be derived repeatably and reproducibly through steady forward-flow testing. A total of seven valve models, each with multiple sizes, were tested, including a mechanical heart valve and multiple biological heart valves.
Zhang Y, Zhang R, Thomas N, Ullah AH, Eichholz B, Estevadeordal J, et al. Medical Engineering & Physics [Internet]. 2022 Apr;102:103784.
To understand the fluid dynamic signatures of such flow, a combined experimental and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) study has been conducted to quantitatively compare the main (axial) and secondary flow characteristics.