Effect of layer heterogeneity on the biomechanical properties of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1227-1237

  Sokolis, Dimitrios P ^a   Kritharis, Eleftherios P ^a   Iliopoulos, Dimitrios C ^b,c  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aneurysm disease; Heterogeneity; Material properties; Strain energy function

Indexed keywords

AORTIC ANEURYSMS; BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; BIOMECHANICAL RESPONSE; DEFORMATION AND STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FAILURE PROPERTIES; HETEROGENEITY; LONGITUDINAL STIFFNESS; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MATERIAL PROPERTY; STRAIN ENERGY FUNCTIONS; TENSILE TESTS;

BLOOD VESSELS; TENSILE TESTING;

BIOMECHANICS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TUNICA MEDIA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 84873996781     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-012-0949-x     Document Type: Article

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