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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Cell Biomech. 2012 Mar;9(1):55–75.

Table 2.

Material property constants of all arteries before and after treatment.

Group b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6
Pre-treatment

I (64U/ml) 138.2 1.522 0.317 0.305 0.010 0.054 0.360
221.7 0.352 0.019 0.001 0.172 0.001 0.170
33.0 4.563 0.119 0.001 1.526 0.001 2.414

II (320U/ml) 1404.3 0.129 0.007 0.001 0.056 0.001 0.059
981.8 0.170 0.006 0.001 0.086 0.001 0.089
659.1 0.348 0.010 0.001 0.173 0.001 0.169
584.7 0.610 0.043 0.080 0.257 0.001 0.145

III (400U/ml) 1127.7 0.217 0.006 0.016 0.276 0.001 0.229
1063.3 0.518 0.001 0.001 0.283 0.001 0.339
1126.8 0.664 0.001 0.001 0.409 0.001 0.480
5116.7 0.145 0.002 0.010 0.083 0.001 0.073
196.8 0.834 0.019 0.001 0.487 0.103 0.748
4284.1 0.077 0.002 0.001 0.041 0.001 0.039

Post-treatment

I 512.0 0.432 0.011 0.001 0.171 0.001 0.264
1971.1 0.526 0.001 0.008 0.333 0.001 0.425
5.6 8.503 0.074 0.001 4.207 0.001 4.942

II 496.2 0.314 0.006 0.001 0.152 0.001 0.176
345.4 1.035 0.021 0.001 0.413 0.001 0.534
11.8 3.945 0.060 0.001 2.420 0.324 2.931
665.0 0.539 0.015 0.001 0.255 0.001 0.261

III 1538.9 0.402 0.005 0.007 0.229 0.001 0.240
3.2 0.001 0.001 7.885 3.398 0.001 0.030
493.2 0.936 0.001 0.001 0.942 0.001 1.263
32.1 1.846 0.037 0.001 1.376 0.285 1.444
38.8 6.562 0.044 0.001 3.189 0.008 4.036
1148.7 0.177 0.001 0.001 0.111 0.001 0.090