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2022-06-01
Plamondon, Carson, Bessa, Guilherme M., Nobes, David S.
This paper outlines the design of an unsteady flowmeter for ex-vivo heart perfusion applications. In order to determine the performance of a given heart, the flowrate in the system must be recorded. The proposed design is based on an orifice plate flowmeter comprising three pressure transducers...
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Fall 2020
Ex Vivo Heart Perfusion (EVHP) preserves a donor heart’s natural beating function outside of the body. The purpose of this work was to study the influence of mock aorta properties on pump performance in a mechanical EVHP system. Previous work has shown potential benefits on pump workload by...