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Published in final edited form as: Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2017 Apr 20;16(5):1613–1632. doi: 10.1007/s10237-017-0908-4

Table 2 –

Estimated SSM model (Eq. (2)) parameters for ovine MVAL tissue (n=3, second animal study group) using the in vivo inverse FE modeling technique, with and without consideration of the quantified pre-strains

Without the pre-strain effect (from state β₂ to state β_t)	μ_m (kPa)	c₀ (kPa)	c₁
MVAL-1	3.51	0.00233	33.66
MVAL-2	4.33	0.00192	28.04
MVAL-3	2.65	0.00041	23.54
mean	3.49	0.0016	28.41
SEM	0.49	0.0006	2.93
With the pre-strain effect (from state β₀ to state β_t)	μ_m (kPa)	c₀ (kPa)	c₁
MVAL-1	3.42	1.05×10⁻⁵	24.21
MVAL-2	4.52	2.81×10⁻⁶	27.23
MVAL-3	2.83	0.42×10⁻⁶	25.18
mean	3.59	3.61×10⁻⁶	25.53
SEM	0.49	3.45×10⁻⁶	0.88