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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 21.
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 6.

Estimates of the viscoelastic model parameters by fitting the shear modulus equation G*(ω) for the models having static stiffness as a parameter with the median of the estimated experimental complex shear modulus over the frequency range (500 Hz to 16 kHz) with static stiffness μ0 as an unknown parameter

Model μ0 (kPa) 1st Parameter 2nd Parameter 3rd Parameter 4th Parameter Error (%) AIC
Voigt μ0 = 49.83 η = 0.5455(Pa · s) / / / 29.97 624.5891
Generalized Maxwell μ0 = 27.5 μ1 = 88.8(kPa) μ2 = 22.8(kPa) η1 = 0.57(Pa · s) η2 = 2.17(Pa · s) 29.6 624.7848
Zener μ0 = 36.4 μ1 = 74.55(kPa) η1 = 0.9217(Pa · s) / / 13.67 573.0675
fractional Voigt μ0 = 16.72 μα = 637.3(Pa · sα) α = 0.4077 / / 3.34 495.1964
3-parameter fractional Zener μ0 = 18.33 μα = 453(Pa · sα) α = 0.4408 μ1 = 106 (Pa) / 3.33 496.8971