TY - JOUR
T1 - Multicomponent Mechanical Characterization of Atherosclerotic Human Coronary Arteries
T2 - An Experimental and Computational Hybrid Approach
AU - Guvenir Torun, Su
AU - Torun, Hakki M.
AU - Hansen, Hendrik H.G.
AU - Gandini, Giulia
AU - Berselli, Irene
AU - Codazzi, Veronica
AU - de Korte, Chris L.
AU - van der Steen, Antonius F.W.
AU - Migliavacca, Francesco
AU - Chiastra, Claudio
AU - Akyildiz, Ali C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Frank J. H. Gijsen, Joost Haeck, and Suze-Anna Korteland for their help to this project.
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2021 Guvenir Torun, Torun, Hansen, Gandini, Berselli, Codazzi, de Korte, van der Steen, Migliavacca, Chiastra and Akyildiz.
PY - 2021/9/7
Y1 - 2021/9/7
N2 - Atherosclerotic plaque rupture in coronary arteries, an important trigger of myocardial infarction, is shown to correlate with high levels of pressure-induced mechanical stresses in plaques. Finite element (FE) analyses are commonly used for plaque stress assessment. However, the required information of heterogenous material properties of atherosclerotic coronaries remains to be scarce. In this work, we characterized the component-wise mechanical properties of atherosclerotic human coronary arteries. To achieve this, we performed ex vivo inflation tests on post-mortem human coronary arteries and developed an inverse FE modeling (iFEM) pipeline, which combined high-frequency ultrasound deformation measurements, a high-field magnetic resonance-based artery composition characterization, and a machine learning-based Bayesian optimization (BO) with uniqueness assessment. By using the developed pipeline, 10 cross-sections from five atherosclerotic human coronary arteries were analyzed, and the Yeoh material model constants of the fibrous intima and arterial wall components were determined. This work outlines the developed pipeline and provides the knowledge of non-linear, multicomponent mechanical properties of atherosclerotic human coronary arteries.
AB - Atherosclerotic plaque rupture in coronary arteries, an important trigger of myocardial infarction, is shown to correlate with high levels of pressure-induced mechanical stresses in plaques. Finite element (FE) analyses are commonly used for plaque stress assessment. However, the required information of heterogenous material properties of atherosclerotic coronaries remains to be scarce. In this work, we characterized the component-wise mechanical properties of atherosclerotic human coronary arteries. To achieve this, we performed ex vivo inflation tests on post-mortem human coronary arteries and developed an inverse FE modeling (iFEM) pipeline, which combined high-frequency ultrasound deformation measurements, a high-field magnetic resonance-based artery composition characterization, and a machine learning-based Bayesian optimization (BO) with uniqueness assessment. By using the developed pipeline, 10 cross-sections from five atherosclerotic human coronary arteries were analyzed, and the Yeoh material model constants of the fibrous intima and arterial wall components were determined. This work outlines the developed pipeline and provides the knowledge of non-linear, multicomponent mechanical properties of atherosclerotic human coronary arteries.
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U2 - 10.3389/fphys.2021.733009
DO - 10.3389/fphys.2021.733009
M3 - Article
C2 - 34557112
AN - SCOPUS:85115375991
SN - 1664-042X
VL - 12
JO - Frontiers in Physiology
JF - Frontiers in Physiology
M1 - 733009
ER -