Figure 1

Application of the inverse algorithm to a straight artery. A) In-vivo lumen surface of STL triangles for idealized geometry of dog femoral artery (Sinha-Roy et al., 2008). B) Computation of nodal normal for offsetting lumen surface. C) Arterial wall geometry in form of STL mesh. D) Arterial wall mesh with 8 node hexahedral element. E) Finite element model with boundary conditions.