{"id":222413,"date":"2025-09-24T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/visualization-of-blood-flow-sharpens-artificial-heart-design"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:14:21","slug":"visualization-of-blood-flow-sharpens-artificial-heart-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/visualization-of-blood-flow-sharpens-artificial-heart-design","title":{"rendered":"Visualization of blood flow sharpens artificial heart design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/visualization-of-blood-flow-sharpens-artificial-heart-design2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using magnetic cameras, researchers at Link\u00f6ping University have examined blood flow in an artificial heart in real time. The results make it possible to design the heart in a way to reduce the risk of blood clots and red blood cell breakdown, a common problem in today\u2019s artificial hearts.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-18422-y\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, was done in collaboration with the company Scandinavian Real Heart AB, which is developing an <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/artificial+heart\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial heart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe heart is a muscle that never rests. It can never rest. The heart can beat for a hundred years without being serviced or stopping even once. But constructing a pump that can function in the same way\u2014that\u2019s a challenge,\u201d says Tino Ebbers, professor of physiology at Link\u00f6ping University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using magnetic cameras, researchers at Link\u00f6ping University have examined blood flow in an artificial heart in real time. The results make it possible to design the heart in a way to reduce the risk of blood clots and red blood cell breakdown, a common problem in today\u2019s artificial hearts. The study, published in Scientific Reports, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}