Computational analysis of pediatric ventricular assist device implantation to decrease cerebral particulate embolizationFootnote

† Presented in part at the 3^rd International Conference on Engineering Frontiers in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease. Stanford, CA, May 2012.

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