@article{f17ac4e2f3ca4912914f51de5090cbfd,
title = "Experimental evidence of the compressibility of arteries",
abstract = "A definitive answer to the question whether artery walls are incompressible is to our opinion not yet categorically provided. Experimental-based evidence on the level of compressibility in artery walls is not easily achieved because of the difficulties associated with the measurement of very small differences in volumes under physiological pressure in these biological tissues. Past experiments aimed at addressing the question considered different species, different arteries, the experimental devices were not accurate enough and a statistical analysis of the results was missing.A precise experimental device together with a thorough testing protocol, a careful selection of arteries and a statistical analysis is presented for a definitive evaluation of the artery wall compressibility. We provide experimental evidence that in saphenous and femoral porcine arteries under physiological pressure range a relative compressibility of 2-6% is observed. The pre-assumption of incompressibility in many phenomenological constitutive models of artery walls should probably be re-evaluated.",
keywords = "Artery, Compressibility, Experimental observations",
author = "Zohar Yosibash and Itay Manor and Ilan Gilad and Udi Willentz",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the anonymous reviewers for their detailed and constructive comments. The authors thank M. Neiman and D. Sade from Ben-Gurion University for their help with the literature survey and with the preliminary steps of the construction of the experimental device. This research was partially supported by a Grant to ZY from the GIF, the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (Grant # I-1189-89.2/2012 ). ",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1016/j.jmbbm.2014.07.030",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "39",
pages = "339--354",
journal = "Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials",
issn = "1751-6161",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
}