and quantitatively characterize anatomic geometry of a heart valve and or the corresponding inflow outflow tracts of the heart the various embodiments described herein may be applied to any single heart valve a combination of multiple heart valves and or combinations of one or more heart valves and one or more coronary blood vessels although occasional references may be made to one specific heart valve these specific references should not be interpreted as limiting the scope of this disclosure for example the aortic heart valve is occasionally used throughout this disclosure as a specific example of a prototypical heart valve illustration of the systems and methods via the example of the aortic heart valve however is not intended to limit the scope of the computer modeling and simulation systems and methods disclosed herein referring to fig1 one embodiment of a method for implementing a modeling and simulation system is illustrated a first step of the method may involve importing or receiving patient specific geometric anatomic physiologic and or hemodynamic data into the computer system 100 typically this patient specific data includes at least some imaging data and at least one clinically measured flow parameter in various embodiments the imaging data and the clinically measured flow parameter s may be received by the system at the same time or at different times during the process the system may receive data from any number and or any type of patient specific data collection source or modality in some embodiments all the.