The Visualization and Measurement of Left Ventricular Deformation

While medical progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases it remains the biggest killer in the western world Cardiovascular diseases cause considerable mor bidity and the prognosis after heart failure is poor An im proved understanding of cardiac mechanics might advance the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases We have developed a toolkit designed for visualizing biomedical models This paper explains techniques for visu alizing and evaluating biomedical nite element models and demonstrates their application to biomedical data sets by using as an example two models of a healthy and a diseased human