Fig. 2: The solid mechanics and hemodynamics exposed to coronary arteries in vivo. | npj Cardiovascular Health

Fig. 2: The solid mechanics and hemodynamics exposed to coronary arteries in vivo.

From: Role of biomechanical factors in plaque rupture and erosion: insight from intravascular imaging based computational modeling

Fig. 2

a Pulsatile blood pressure and flow velocity to induce wall shear stress; b Circumferential stress arises from radial expansion and recoil over the cardiac cycle, and Laplace’s law to estimate the wall stress, where r is vessel radius, h is the wall thickness; c The wall stress in axial, circumferential and radial directions.

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