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Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2014 Dec 21;59(24):7717–7734. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/24/7717

Table 4.

Estimates of the viscoelastic parameters by fitting the shear modulus equation G^*(ω) for the four integer models to the median of the estimated experimental complex shear modulus over the frequency range (500 Hz to 16 kHz)

Model	1^st Parameter	2^nd Parameter	3^rd Parameter	4^th Parameter	Error (%)	AIC
Voigt	η = 0.5455 (Pa · s)	/	/	/	68.76	683.3
Maxwell	μ = 68.06 (kPa)	η = 4.645 (Pa · s)	/	/	38.26	642
Generalized Maxwell	μ₁ = 78.5 (kPa)	μ₂ = 30.17 (kPa)	η₁ = 0.72 (Pa · s)	η₂ = 9.4 (Pa · s)	7.08	538
Zener	μ₁ = 66.47 (kPa)	η₁ = 2.36 (Pa · s)	/	/	29.6	624.8