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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 18.
Published in final edited form as: Med Eng Phys. 2014 Jan 3;36(3):354–363. doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2013.12.003

Table 1.

The cross-sectional area, length, elasticity of each vessel in the 1D pipe flow model. As the model is symmetrical, each vessel is only listed once. Physiologic data based on previous modeling results by Alastruey17.

Vessel Area (cm2) Length (cm) Beta (m pa)
Common Carotid Artery 0.196 17.70 595.24
Internal Carotid Artery (prox) 0.126 17.70 944.83
Internal Carotid Artery (dist) 0.126 0.50 1889.66
External Carotid Artery 0.071 17.70 718.07
Middle Cerebral Artery 0.064 11.90 1360.56
Anterior Cerebral Artery (prox) 0.043 1.20 1096.00
Anterior Cerebral Artery (dist) 0.045 10.30 1133.80
Anterior Communicating Artery 0.017 0.30 718.07
Posterior Communicating Artery 0.017 1.50 680.28
Vertebral Artery 0.058 14.80 642.49
Basilar Artery 0.082 2.90 1511.73
Posterior Cerebral Artery (prox) 0.036 0.50 1020.42
Posterior Cerebral Artery (dist) 0.035 8.60 982.62