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Determination of arterial wall shear stress

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The arteries can remodel their structure and function to adapt themselves to the mechanical environment. In various factors that lead to vascular remodeling, the shear stress on the arterial wall induced by the blood flow is of great importance. However, there are many technique difficulties in measuring the wall shear stress directly at present. In this paper, through analyzing the pulsatile blood flow in arteries, a method has been proposed that can determine the wall shear stress quantitatively by measuring the velocity on the arterial axis, and that provides a necessary means to discuss the influence of arterial wall shear stress on vascular remodeling.

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    Feng He, Gang Xu & Yong Chen

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Liu, Z., He, F., Xu, G. et al. Determination of arterial wall shear stress. Sci. China Ser. A-Math. 44, 1312–1321 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02877020

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