The purpose of our work is to estimate arterial stiffness based on the virtual fields method and using pressure gradients and arterial wall motion. Currently, the gold standard to estimate arterial stiffness relies primarily on the pulse wave velocity, which provides a relation between arterial stiffness and the velocity of the pressure wave propagating through the arterial wall. The pulse wave velocity method has been improved over the years, but still depends on specific assumptions regarding, for example, blood pressure, arterial geometry, and linear material response. The proposed method directly links arterial wall displacements and pressure gradients to arterial stiffness and paves the way to computing arterial stiffness with higher accuracy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ucf.edu/oai:stars.library.ucf.edu:honorstheses-1877 |
| Date | 01 January 2020 |
| Creators | Borras Abdala, Carlos A |
| Publisher | STARS |
| Source Sets | University of Central Florida |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Honors Undergraduate Theses |
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