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Recent advances in computational modeling of vascular adaptations and the need for their extension to patient-specific modeling have introduced new challenges to the path toward abdominal aortic aneurysm modeling. First, the fundamental assumption in adaptation models, namely the existence of vascular homeostasis in normal vessels, is not easy to implement in a vessel model built from medical images. Second, subjecting the vessel wall model to the normal pressure often makes the configuration deviate from the original geometry obtained from medical images. To address those technical challenges, in this work, we propose a two-step optimization approach; first, we estimate constitutive parameters of a healthy human aorta intrinsic to the material by using biaxial test data and a weighted nonlinear least-squares parameter estimation method; second, we estimate the distributions of wall thickness and anisotropy using a 2-D parameterization of the vessel wall surface and a global approximation scheme integrated within an optimization routine. A direct search method is implemented to solve the optimization problem. The numerical optimization method results in a considerable improvement in both satisfying homeostatic condition and minimizing the deviation of geometry from the original shape based on in vivo images. Finally, the utility of the proposed technique for patient-specific modeling is demonstrated in a simulation of an abdominal aortic aneurysm enlargement.
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Dedicated to Professor K.R. Rajagopal on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.
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Zeinali-Davarani, S., Raguin, L.G., Vorp, D.A. et al. Identification of in vivo material and geometric parameters of a human aorta: toward patient-specific modeling of abdominal aortic aneurysm. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 10, 689–699 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-010-0266-y
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