Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Part I : Fundamentals of Intracardiac Flows and Their Measurement
  • 1: Introduction
  • 2: Handy Mathematical Instruments of Thought
  • 3: Some Notable Pioneers
  • 4: Fluid Dynamics of Unsteady Flow
  • 5: Micromanometric, Velocimetric, Angio- and Echocardiographic Measurements
  • 6: Cardiac Morphology and Flow Patterns: Structural-Functional Correlations
  • 7: Cardiac Cycle and Central Pressure, Flow, and Volume Pulses
  • 8: Addendum to Chapters 4, 5, & 7: A Gallery of Multisensor Catheter Cardiodynamics
  • 9: Vortex Formation in Fluid FlowPart II: Visualization of Intracardiac Blood Flows: Methodologies, Frameworks, and Insights
  • 10: Cardiac Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, and Real-Time 3-D Echocardiography
  • 11: Postprocessing Exploration Techniques and Display of Tomographic Data
  • 12: Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD
  • 13: CFD of Ventricular Ejection
  • 14: CFD of Ventricular Filling: Heart's Vortex
  • 15: Fluid Dynamic Epigenetic Factors in Cardiogenesis and Remodeling
  • 16: A Recapitulation with Clinical and Basic Science Perspectives: Directions of Future Research17: Epilogue
  • Part III: Appendix
  • Index