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Can we obtain in vivo transmural mean hoop stress of the aortic wall without knowing patient-specific material properties and residual deformations?

Minliang Liu, Liang Liang, Haofei Liu, Ming Zhang, Caitlin Martin, Wei Sun
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/366849
Minliang Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology;
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Liang Liang
Georgia Institute of Technology;
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Haofei Liu
Tianjin University
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Ming Zhang
Tianjin University
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Caitlin Martin
Georgia Institute of Technology;
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Wei Sun
Georgia Institute of Technology;
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  • For correspondence: wei.sun@bme.gatech.edu
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Abstract

It is well known that residual deformations/stresses alter the mechanical behavior of arteries, e.g. the pressure-diameter curves. In an effort to enable personalized analysis of the aortic wall stress, approaches have been developed to incorporate experimentally-derived residual deformations into in vivo loaded geometries in finite element simulations using thick-walled models. Solid elements are typically used to account for 'bending-like' residual deformations. Yet, the difficulty in obtaining patient-specific residual deformations and material properties has become one of the biggest challenges of these thick-walled models. In thin-walled models, fortunately, static determinacy offers an appealing prospect that allows for the calculation of the thin-walled membrane stress without patient-specific material properties. The membrane stress can be computed using forward analysis by enforcing an extremely stiff material property as penalty treatment, which is referred to as the forward penalty approach. However, thin-walled membrane elements, which have zero bending stiffness, are incompatible with the residual deformations, and therefore, it is often stated as a limitation of thin-walled models. In this paper, by comparing the predicted stresses from thin-walled models and thick-walled models, we demonstrate that the transmural mean hoop stress is the same for the two models and can be readily obtained from in vivo clinical images without knowing the patient-specific material properties and residual deformations. Computation of patient-specific mean hoop stress can be greatly simplified by using membrane model and the forward penalty approach, which may be clinically valuable.

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Can we obtain in vivo transmural mean hoop stress of the aortic wall without knowing patient-specific material properties and residual deformations?
Minliang Liu, Liang Liang, Haofei Liu, Ming Zhang, Caitlin Martin, Wei Sun
bioRxiv 366849; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/366849
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Can we obtain in vivo transmural mean hoop stress of the aortic wall without knowing patient-specific material properties and residual deformations?
Minliang Liu, Liang Liang, Haofei Liu, Ming Zhang, Caitlin Martin, Wei Sun
bioRxiv 366849; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/366849

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