El-Sayed H Ibrahim1, Xiaolong Wang1, and Bo Wang1
1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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study showed that the developed graft has biomechanical characteristics similar
to those in native aorta and normal rat, which may represent a potential avenue to construct a
flexible vascular graft that matches the patient-specific dimension.
Figure 1. Coronal image showing native aorta and graft region, as well as
corresponding picture. The figure also shows locations where cross-sectional
phase-encoding images were acquired.
Figure 2. (a) Magnitude images showing a cross-sectional area in the graft region
(arrows), which grows with time during systole. (b) Velocity-encoded
phase-contrast images showing a cross-sectional area in the graft region
(arrows), where flow increases (blacker region) during early systole.