Title :
Chronic instrumentation for right heart cardiovascular studies in a human surrogate model
Author :
White, C.D. ; Koenig, S.C. ; Fanton, J.W. ; Latham, R.D. ; Self, D.A. ; Owens, R.W. ; Mendenhall, R.E.
Author_Institution :
Armstrong Labs, Laboratory for Aerospace Cardiovascular Research (LACR), AL/AOCIY-LACR, Bldg. 125, Brooks AFB, TX 78235-5301
fDate :
Oct. 29 1992-Nov. 1 1992
Abstract :
The Laboratory for Aerospace Cardiovascular Research (LACR) is a center for studying the effects of micro-and high (9Gz) gravitational forces on the cardiovascular system. Prior research efforts focused on determining pressure-volume-flow relationships of the left heart for altered G-environmcnts. This paper will describe the current right/left heart model that features less traumatic chronic implantation. This model has enabled LACR to evaluate right/left heart cardiovascular function in chronically instrumented non-human surrogate model during static rotational tilt, NASA KC-135 micro-G parabolas, and high G centrifugation.
Keywords :
Bismuth; Blood; Crystals; Hemodynamics; Instruments;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1992 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Paris, France
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-0816-6
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1992.5761188
