Biomedical Engineering Reference
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FIGURE 9.2
(a) Photograph of a typical tilting disk valve prosthesis. (Courtesy of Medtronic Heart Valves,
Minneapolis, MN.) (b) Chitra tilting disk valve prosthesis with the occluder made of ultra-high-molecular-weight
polyethylene. (Courtesy of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, India.)
FIGURE 9.3
A CarboMedics bileaflet valve with pyrolytic carbon leaflets and housing. (Courtesy of Sulzer-
CarboMedics, Austin, TX.)
