Table 2.

Average strain differences and standard deviations along the arterial wall

	Region	Ultrasound Results	FEA1	FEA2
Physiologic pressure	Top	-0.050 ± 0.023	-0.086 ± 0.008	-0.113 ± 0.004
	Bottom	-0.058 ± 0.013	-0.086 ± 0.009	-0.111 ± 0.003
	Left	0.012 ± 0.011	0.134 ± 0.011	0.170 ± 0.005
	Right	0.034 ± 0.019	0.136 ± 0.009	0.170 ± 0.004
Pressure equalization	Top	-0.256 ± 0.073	-0.194 ± 0.043	-0.606 ± 0.023
	Bottom	-0.059 ± 0.009 (Poor tracking)	-0.213 ± 0.038	-0.598 ± 0.016
	Left	0.115 ± 0.112	0.161 ± 0.021	0.914 ± 0.025
	Right	0.241 ± 0.141	0.164 ± 0.016	0.915 ± 0.019