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Latest Advances in Cardiovascular Imaging, C. Constantinides (Editor). Bentham Science Books: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (in preparation). The contractual agreement for this effort reflects a personal involvement and commitment of Dr. C. Constantinides and bears no contractual engagement or relationship whatsoever with the University of Cyprus.

C. Constantinides. Murine Cardiac Hemodynamics: The Development and use of Invasive Catheters, and the Emergence of New Methodologies, Herzaki (Ed), Hemodynamics: Monitoring, Theory and Applications, New York: NOVA Publications (in press). C. Constantinides. Study of the Murine Cardiac Mechanical Function using Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The Current Status, Challenges, and Future Perspectives. InTech Open Science Publications for Editor Review-Pre-Selection for the Edited Book Collection on: Biomedical Engineering, ISBN 979-953-307-829-7 (in press).

C. Constantinides. Physiology and Bioengineering: A Teaching Primer. U. Cyprus, Fall 2006 [158 pages]. Part of the Primer includes translation of the Book «Physiology of the Heart», A. Katz, after the author’s permission.

In Preparation Stress and Strain Characterization of a Dynamically Controlled Cardiac Phantom using Computational Fluid and Structural Dynamics (in preparation). Charalambous N, Michaelides K, Michaelides E, Psimolofitis E, Tsagkarakis V, Constantinides C. Submitted Epicardial Force and Strain Characterization of the In Vivo Murine Heart (submitted). Michaelides M, Georgiadou S, Constantinides C. Stress-Strain Characteristics of Elastomeric Membranes under Uniaxial Testing: Theoretical Formulation, Experimental tests, and Computational Validation (submitted). Angeli S, Panayiotou C, Psimolofitis E, Nicolaou M, Constantinides C. A Prototype Device for 3D Passive Epicardial Elasticity Mapping of the Murine Myocardium using AFM (in preparation for submission). Constantinides C, Kossivas F, Epameinoda P, Michaelides M, Rebholz C. Epicardial Elasticity Measurements of the Ex-Vivo Murine Heart using Atomic Force Microscopy (in preparation for submission). Kossivas F, Cao L, Michaelides M, Kyprianou A, Constantinides C. A Computer-Controlled Cardiac Phantom to Emulate Human and Murine Cardiac Motion using DENSE MRI (in preparation for submission). C. Constantinides, X. Zhong, V. Tzangarakis, G. Cofer, R. Gravett. Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(glycerol sebacate)s: Amphiphilic Degradable Elastomers, Macromolecules (conditional acceptance). D. Kafouris, F. Kossivas, C. Constantinides, C. Patrickios. Published/In Press Elimination of Mutual Inductance in NMR Phased Arrays: The Paddle End-Ring Design Revisited. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, June 2012 (published). C. Constantinides, S. Angeli. MRI Based Morphological Modeling, Synthesis, and Characterization of Cardiac Tissue Mimicking Materials. IOP Biomedical Materials 7(3), 2012. F. Kossivas, S. Angeli, D. Kafouris, C. Patrickios, C. Constantinides. Underestimation of Murine Cardiac Hemodynamics using Invasive Catheters: Errors, Limitations, and Remedies. Journal of Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology (CVET), DOI:10.1007/s13239-012-0084-8, March 2012. C. Constantinides, S. Angeli, F. Kossivas, P. Ktorides. Murine Cardiac Catheterizations and Hemodynamics: On the Issue of Parallel Conductance – A Quantitative Study. IEEE-TBME 58(11):3260-8, 2011. C. Constantinides, S. Angeli. Changes in Murine Cardiac Ionotropy and Hemodynamics following Manganese administration under isoflurane anesthesia, Annals in Biomedical Engineering, 39(11):2706-2720, 2011; DOI: 10.1007/s10439-011-0367-5 (August 5, 2011). C. Constantinides, S. Angeli, R. Mean. Morphological Studies of the Murine Heart Based on Probabilistic and Statistical Atlases, J. Computerized Graphics, doi 10.1016/j.compmedimag 2011.07.001, August 2011. D. Perperidis, E. Bucholz, G. A. Johnson, C. Constantinides. Effects of Isoflurane Anesthesia on Murine Cardiovascular Function, 52:e21-31, ILAR, 2011. C. Constantinides, R. Mean, B. A. Janssen. Intercomparison of performance of RF Coil Geometries for High Field Mouse Cardiac MRI. Concepts of Magnetic Resonance Part A, Vol. 38A(5):236-252, 2011, DOI 10.1002/cmr.a.20225 (4 August 2011). C. Constantinides, S. Angeli, S. Gkagarelis, G. Cofer.

In Preparation Stress and Strain Characterization of a Dynamically Controlled Cardiac Phantom using Computational Fluid and Structural Dynamics (in preparation). Charalambous N, Michaelides K, Michaelides E, Psimolofitis E, Tzagarakis V, Constantinides C. Direct Epicardial Force and Strain Measurements from the in vivo Murine Heart (completed, to be submitted at Experimental Biology 2013). Michaelides M, Georgiadou S, Constantinides C. Accepted %0