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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mech Mater. 2012 Jan 1;44:110–119. doi: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2011.05.006

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Geometry of a basilar artery and orientations of the smooth muscle (circumferential) and four general families of collagen (axial, circumferential, and symmetric diagonal) used for computations. P denotes the transmural pressure and Q the volumetric flow rate, both of which are measurable clinically.