Research Article

Towards Patient-Specific Modeling of Coronary Hemodynamics in Healthy and Diseased State

Figure 2

(a) A schematic representation of the model of coronary arterial wall [17]. The fiber orientation is determined by angle . (b) A two-dimensional representation of the stenosis element. is the length of the stenosis, the radius of the vessel at the neck of the stenosis, and the radius of the vessel proximal to the stenosis. Adapted from Bessems [16].
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