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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2009 Aug 7;42(15):2535–2539. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.07.009

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Sample strips for material testing. A: arterial rings with small extracellular lipid pools; B: axial strips with fatty streaks; C: open-up sectors after radial cuts were made in the rings in (A); D: separated layers, adventitia (sectors with relatively round shape) and media (sectors with more irregular shape) of the open-up sectors; E: separated layers, adventitia (thicker strip) and media (thinner strips) of axial strips. Each small grid is 1mm width.