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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Theor Biol. 2012 Mar 20;303C:93–97. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.03.010

Table 1.

Homeostatic pressure Ph (in mmHg) for porcine left anterior descending arteries (LAD), estimated based on Fung model (5.1). The experimental data are taken from Lu et al. (2003) and Wang et al. (2006).

vessel vessel geometry
material parameters
Ph
R2 R1 α k c b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6
L1 3.08 2.46 182.4 1.73 11.64 1.03 2.09 0.38 0.37 0.02 0.06 69.5
L2 6.20 5.44 256.6 3.48 5.94 1.27 2.78 0.62 0.45 0.13 0.13 79.0
L3 11.0 10.4 317.8 8.52 4.16 1.58 2.66 0.73 0.3 0.03 0.08 108.8
L4 5.37 4.76 262.5 3.69 11.45 1.00 2.16 0.52 0.39 0.04 0.06 72.1
L5 2.20 1.85 194.0 2.17 4.43 1.48 5.15 0.24 0.25 0.46 0.01 95.2
L6 3.56 3.10 261.6 3.66 13.87 0.66 4.9 0.12 0.48 0.07 0.01 119.5
L7 7.40 7.05 303.8 6.39 4.26 0.92 7.84 2.42 0.31 0.2 0.32 90.4
L8 3.52 3.07 213.0 2.45 13.86 1.26 1.89 0.52 0.27 0.05 0.14 71.6
mean 88.3

R1 and R2 (mm): inner and outer radius of zero-stress state; α (degree): opening angle; k: opening angle index (Eq. 1.1); c (kPa) and {b1~b6}: dimensionless material parameters in Eq. (5.2).