A method for mechanical characterization of small blood vessels and vascular grafts

Authors :: Barbara Messner
Heinrich Schima
Helga Bergmeister
Martin Stoiber
David Bernhard
Christian Grasl
V. Gschlad
Source :: Experimental Mechanics. 55:1591-1595
Publication Year :: 2015
Publisher :: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
Abstract: For small animal vascular disease models and for the development of small-diameter vascular prosthesis, biomechanical data is important. However, these tiny structures with low diameter (

Subjects :: Aorta
Materials science
Distal locations
Vascular disease
Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Stiffness
medicine.disease
Mechanics of Materials
medicine.artery
Ultimate tensile strength
medicine
Aortic stiffness
medicine.symptom
Biomedical engineering
Fixation (histology)
Tensile testing

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