Heart Cryopreservation
| dc.contributor.author | Foote, Stacey | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gaines, Carmen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Levine, Jacob | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pecak, Garry | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saikkonen, Kelly | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-01-10T16:55:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-01-10T16:55:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000-01-10T16:55:05Z | |
| dc.description | No access to the full paper due to lack of a FERPA release. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Heart disease affects many people and heart transplants are becoming more common. Limited shelf life is a major hindrance to the success of heart transplants. Cryopreservation opens an avenue for increasing shelf life. Our goal in this study was to model the preservation of a heart using finite element software to determine the time needed to sufficiently cool the heart and to compare the average temperature to the maximum temperature of the heart. We found a range of minimum times varying with material properties of the heart. We concluded that computer simulation can be used to approximate the minimum time needed to reach a desired maximum temperature. We also found that average temperature of the heart during cooling was not an accurate approximation of the maximum temperature. | en_US |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/270 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.title | Heart Cryopreservation | en_US |
| dc.type | term paper | en_US |