The atrioventricular heart valves (AHVs) are responsible for directing unidirectional blood
flow through the heart by properly opening and closing the valve leaflets, which are …

Collagen fiber networks provide the structural strength of tissues, such as tendons, skin and
arteries. Quantifying the fiber architecture in response to mechanical loads is essential …

Significance Knowledge of fiber microstructure and orientation in the brain is critical for
many applications. Polarized light imaging (PLI) has been shown to have potential for better …

A constitutive model that explicitly considers the gradual recruitment of collagen fibers is
applied to investigate the uniaxial properties of human ascending aortic aneurysms. The …

Unidirectional blood flow in the left side of the heart is regulated by the mitral valve. To better
understand the mitral valve function, researchers have examined the structural and …

In the present study, we demonstrate that soft tissue fiber architectural maps captured using
polarized spatial frequency domain imaging (pSFDI) can be utilized as an effective texture …

Atrioventricular heart valves (AHVs) regulate the unidirectional flow of blood through the
heart by opening and closing of the leaflets, which are supported in their functions by the …

Phantoms simulating polarization characteristics of soft tissue play an important role in the
development, calibration, and validation of diagnostic polarized imaging devices and of …

Knowledge of fiber microstructure and orientation in the brain is critical for understanding the
pathogenesis and progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease …

Collagen fibers are the primary load-bearing microstructural constituent of bodily soft
tissues, and, when subjected to external loading, the collagen fibers reorient, uncrimp, and …