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Modeling Active Contraction and Relaxation of Left Ventricle Using Different Zero-load Diastole and Systole Geometries for Better Material Parameter Estimation and Stress/Strain Calculations

Longling Fan^1,§, Jing Yao^2,§, Chun Yang³, Di Xu², Dalin Tang^1,4*

1 Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China.
2 Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.
3 Network Technology Research Institute, China United Network Communications Co., Ltd., Beijing, 100048, China.
4 Mathematical Sciences Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA 01609 USA.
These authors contributed equally to this work.
* Corresponding author: Dalin Tang, e-mail: dtang@wpi.edu.