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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 26.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2010 Feb 9;38(4):1288–1313. doi: 10.1007/s10439-010-9949-x

Table 3.

Turbulent Kinetic Energy and Kinetic Energy Within The Abdominal Aorta and Aneurysm Of All Eight Patients At Three Points In the Cardiac Cycle For Both Rest And Exercise.

Turbulent Kinetic Energy (g cm−1 s−2)
Rest
Exercise
Patient # AAA type Systole Mid-Decel. Mid-Dias. Systole Mid-Decel. Mid-Dias.
1 fusiform 1.75 4.96 3.31 24.61 255.42 51.23
2 single-lobed 0.73 0.60 1.56 8.68 27.13 20.68
3 bi-lobed 2.08 3.02 3.60 40.06 174.85 35.70
4 fusiform 1.47 1.66 2.00 21.15 43.10 39.78
5 fusiform 0.65 0.62 0.65 11.86 5.89 22.84
6 bi-lobed 3.79 17.33 6.07 183.84 410.78 72.08
7 single-lobed 0.51 0.82 0.90 16.39 46.76 41.23
8 bi-lobed 3.77 30.62 6.33 278.00 397.64 159.36

mean 1.84 7.45 3.05 73.07 170.19 55.36
st. deviation 1.32 10.90 2.20 101.07 167.22 45.04
Kinetic Energy (g cm−1 s−2)
Rest
Exercise
Patients AAA type Systole Mid-Decel. Mid-Dias. Systole Mid-Decel. Mid-Dias.
1 fusiform 592.73 240.67 3.44 2333.56 2254.23 407.37
2 single-lobed 473.31 166.67 5.80 2004.16 1578.72 298.71
3 bi-lobed 314.90 104.45 6.34 1596.97 1321.53 313.56
4 fusiform 431.58 93.92 2.25 1713.19 1088.29 176.27
5 fusiform 125.93 28.01 1.88 404.11 366.98 53.54
6 bi-lobed 356.43 282.56 15.13 2381.10 1964.90 329.27
7 single-lobed 211.06 35.55 4.80 922.54 1244.05 183.91
8 bi-lobed 518.64 440.49 20.68 3123.75 2839.58 862.73

Mean 378.07 174.04 7.54 1809.92 1582.29 328.17
st. deviation 157.52 140.93 6.75 860.46 763.65 242.73
TKE/KE Ratio
Rest
Exercise
Patients AAA type Systole Mid-Decel. Mid-Dias. Systole Mid-Decel. Mid-Dias.
1 fusiform 0.0029 0.0206 0.9644 0.0105 0.1133 0.1258
2 single-lobed 0.0015 0.0036 0.2688 0.0043 0.0172 0.0692
3 bi-lobed 0.0066 0.0289 0.5669 0.0251 0.1323 0.1139
4 fusiform 0.0034 0.0177 0.8895 0.0123 0.0396 0.2257
5 fusiform 0.0051 0.0221 0.3457 0.0293 0.0160 0.4266
6 bi-lobed 0.0106 0.0613 0.4014 0.0772 0.2091 0.2189
7 single-lobed 0.0024 0.0230 0.1881 0.0178 0.0376 0.2242
8 bi-lobed 0.0073 0.0695 0.3063 0.0890 0.1400 0.1847

Mean 0.0050 0.0308 0.4914 0.0332 0.0881 0.1986
st. deviation 0.0030 0.0226 0.2911 0.0320 0.0708 0.1090