Abstract: A finite-element numerical model was constructed of the spinal cord, pia mater, filum terminale, cerebrospinal fluid in the spinal subarachnoid space (SSS), and dura mater. The cord was hollowed ...

Abstract: This paper examines the assumption that the audible events detected as Korotkov sounds in sphygmomanometry occur when blood pressure equals arm-cuff pressure. Several effects that contribute to ...

Abstract: An iterative method of calculating propagation parameters at harmonics of heart rate for a uniform vascular segment from a combination of four arterial waveform measurements is presented. ...

Abstract: A perspex (plexiglas) tube was locally deformed into an almost bi-lobar interior cross section, representative of the localized throat at the downstream end of a collapsed tube conveying a flow. ...

Abstract: A two-component laser Doppler anemometer was used to determine the velocity of aqueous flow in the region from 0.25 to 2.5 diameters downstream of a collapsible tube while the tube was executing ...

Abstract: To determine whether self-excited oscillations in a Starling resistor are relevant to physiological situations, a collapsible tube conveying an aqueous flow was externally pressurized along only ...

Abstract: We probed the time-varying flow field immediately downstream of a flexible tube conveying an aqueous flow, during flow-induced oscillation of small amplitude, at time-averaged Reynolds numbers ...

Abstract: A two-dimensional axi-symmetric numerical model is constructed of the spinal cord, consisting of elastic cord tissue surrounded by aqueous cerebrospinal fluid, in turn surrounded by elastic dura. ...

Abstract: The flow field less than one diameter downstream of the end of a collapsible tube executing self-excited oscillations was examined using a two-component fiber-optic laser-Doppler anemometer. The ...