Mouse great arterial wall shear stress variation along the length of the arteries.

<p>These plots show how wall shear parameters change from one cross section to the next, moving along the vascular centerline from the great arterial roots to the distal descending aorta. The vertical axis denotes a wall shear parameter, which is either wall shear stress (a, c) or wall shear rate (b, d); and the horizontal axis denotes the location on the centerline of vessels. Wall shear parameters are averaged over the entire cross section at each vascular centerline location. In plots (a) and (b), the horizontal axis denotes the centerline trajectory from the aortic root boundary to the aortic isthmus to the thoracic descending aorta boundary; while in plots (c) and (d), the horizontal axis denotes the centerline trajectory from the pulmonary root boundary to the ductus arteriosus to the thoracic descending aorta boundary. Centerline distance from the aortic/pulmonary roots were scaled such that the geometric landmarks such as the locations of arterial branches could be plotted at the same location across different ages to allow comparisons of features across different gestation stages.