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A multipurpose tissue bending machine.

I Vesely·D R Boughner
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A unique tissue bending machine was developed to test the bending properties of normal and bioprosthetic heart valve material. It can be operated in air or in a tissue bath and can measure bending torques with an accuracy in excess of 1.0 microN m. Three contrasting substances were tested to compare their stiffness and to demonstrate the machine.

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BiophysicsBioprosthesisHeart Valve ProsthesisHumansStress, MechanicalTensile StrengthJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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I Vesely, D R Boughner. 1985. A multipurpose tissue bending machine.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9290(85)90665-7

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