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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2014 Oct 27;47(16):3868–3875. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.10.010

Table 1.

Convex material constants of six normal porcine carotid arteries and one elastase-treated artery (refit of experimental data from (Lee et al. 2012)).

Artery ID b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6
5 20.42 0.679 0.751 0.228 0.0519 0.033 0.051
6 18.14 0.470 0.460 0.150 0.090 0.060 0.030
7 33.04 0.461 0.588 0.266 0.123 0.083 0.087
8 13.35 0.827 0.547 0.613 0.018 0.072 0.027
9 16 0.820 0.771 0.509 0.116 0.092 0.046
E6 30.69 1.265 0.353 1.000 0.179 0.011 0.026
E6 treated 3.07 3.375 0.940 0.564 0.179 0.007 0.090

Note: “E6 treated” is the same artery as E6, but after elastase treatment to remove elastin in the wall (see (Lee et al. 2012) for details)