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Prosthetic heart valves have been responsible for extending the life spans and improving the quality of life of many people with serious heart conditions. Even though the heart valves are extremely reliable, eventually they are susceptible to the long-term fatigue and structural failure effects expected for mechanical devices operating over long periods of time. In [2] a classification procedure was developed using spectral features obtained from acoustic signals to determine the condition of the prosthetic heart valve. Although this classification procedure has produced very encouraging results, this method still lacks a fundamental physical description of the sounds produced by the valve during normal operation. In order to obtain a better understanding of the valve acoustic response, we have performed a set of anechoic tests. In this paper, we describe the anechoic experiment and also present limited transient response results. This transient information will eventually be used to identify and improve the features used to classify the valve condition.
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Warrick, A.L., Candy, J.V. & Brown, A.E. Parametric signal processing of anechoic data from prosthetic heart valve testing. Circuits Systems and Signal Process 17, 123–136 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213974
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