Incidence of the Curvature of a Catheter on the Variations of the Inner Volume: Application to the Peripherally Central Catheters

Figure 5

Numerical results giving the percentage of variation of the inner volume as a function of the coefficient of Poisson’s ratio for different values of the inner diameter 𝑑 and for different values of the thickness 𝑒 of the catheter.

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