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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2012 Feb 2;45(5):762–771. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.11.016

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Illustration of the methodology used to determine model parameters. Top row, left to right: specimen of carotid artery between the clamps of the UA-MPM device, illustration of collagen recruitment analysis, depiction of collagen orientation analysis. Middle row, left to right: raw stress-stretch results from testing, tortuosity data and the Gamma cumulative distribution function plotted against stretch, orientation distribution histogram. Bottom: final results from UA-MPM testing of a rabbit carotid artery. Raw stress-stretch data (blue dots) and structural model fit (blue line) from uniaxial tension tests in the circumferential direction with overlaid recruitment probability distribution function (green line).