...Dimitrios P. Sokolis Hemodynamic variations influence the location of entry tears in aortic dissection. This study investigates whether variations in tear strength across the human aorta contribute to these clinical manifestations. Circumferential and axial strips were collected from nine axial...

... human thoracic aortas with aneurysm or dissection. The quantification of surface curvatures showed good agreement with analytic solutions from the software phantoms, and demonstrated better agreement as compared to estimation methods using only centerline geometry and cross-sectional radii...

...Christopher E. Korenczuk; Rohit Y. Dhume; Kenneth K. Liao; Victor H. Barocas Ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (ATAAs) are anatomically complex in terms of architecture and geometry, and both complexities contribute to unpredictability of ATAA dissection and rupture in vivo. The goal of this work...

..., but dissection of ATAA also depends on the strength of the tissue in the shear and radial tension [ 38 ]. Fitting the model to data from different experiments is an important test, and it will be valuable in the future to examine how the model behaves under different loading configurations (e.g., inflation...