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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2017 Sep 27;64:136–144. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.09.017

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Experimental setup, showing the position of the transducer on the common carotid artery (CCA). The distance to the bifurcation where the internal and external carotid arteries (ICA and ECA) form is measured to define the required length of the model to capture the pulse wave reflection occurring at the bifurcation. The finite difference model spans from the start of the transducer to the bifurcation, and the 10 segment kp distribution spans the width of the transducer. kp for the remaining model is held at the rightmost value. The unknown parameters, which are updated during the inverse problem, are the 10 kp values and 16 DCT components of the inlet pressure BC for each pulse wave segment.