-A model of the human arterial system was constructed based on the anatomical branching structure of the arterial tree. Arteries were divided into segments represented by uniform thin-walled elastic tubes with realistic arterial dimensions and wall properties. The configuration contains 128 segments accounting for all the central vessels and major peripheral arteries supplying the extremities i...

The primary issue in defining an integration architecture is the ability to separate the concerns of each application component, while simultaneously creating an integrated system. This separation has several dimensions. Without this ability to separate the concerns, the resulting system will not only be tightly coupled and resist change and enhancement, but failures in one portion of the syste...

Microscale elastic moduli, composition and density have rarely been determined at the same location for biological materials. In this paper, we have performed homotopic measurements to determine the physico-mechanical properties of a second primary molar specimen exhibiting sound and caries-affected regions. A microscale acoustic impedance map of a section through this sample was acquired using...

Vasoactive drugs are known to affect impedance (pressure/flow) and vessel wall motion in arteries. The nonlinear theory of oscillatory flow in straight elastic vessels indicates that wall shear rate is affected by changes in impedance phase angle and wall motion. To test whether wall shear rate depends on impedance phase angle and wall motion in vivo, wall shear rate was measured in the abdomin...

Vasoactive drugs are known to affect impedance (pressure/flow) and vessel wall motion in arteries. The nonlinear theory of oscillatory flow in straight elastic vessels indicates that wall shear rate is affected by changes in impedance phase angle and wall motion. To test whether wall shear rate depends on impedance phase angle and wall motion in vivo, wall shear rate was measured in the abdomin...

Five parameters are needed to describe VTI anisotropy in 2-D elastic media. With conventional streamer data and considering that we have a kinematically accurate NMO velocity (vnmo) and η (or horizontal velocity, vh) obtained from tomographic methods, we first show that a parameterization given by vh, η and allows us to focus the inversion to update vh (for traveltime and amplitude fitting) and...