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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 11.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2011 Jan 4;39(5):1438–1456. doi: 10.1007/s10439-010-0236-7

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Modeling diagram, in which arterial blood pressure is used as an input, an elastic response function s(e)[] is determined and coupled with a viscoelastic creep function K(t) to predict the vessel strain ε. Finally, vessel area is predicted as a function of vessel strain as described in (2).