Stiffness Evaluation of Aortic Aneurysms Using an Ultrafast Principal Strain Estimator: In Vitro Validation

Aortic stiffness is altered by cardiovascular diseases and exacerbated in innate or pathological conditions, which might be detected by noninvasive vascular elastography.... ...results suggest that the proposed model could detect and evaluate aortic aneurysm stiffness and may be useful clinically for the early and timely detection of degraded mechanical properties to impact patient outcomes.... … Hz. Normal and aneurysm aortic deformations were compared by pulsing mimicing vessels at 60 bpm, using a hydraulic pulse duplicator within a left ventricular model (Superpump system, Vivitro Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada) …