Modeling and simulation of the upper limb artery system using three section electric network model
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Abstract:
A three section electric network model is built for human upper limb arterial system according to the Windkessel model. Blood pressure waveform of brachial artery is inputted into the electric network model. The state space equations of the electric network model are refined by using the state space analysis and solved numerically by the fourth order Runge Kutta method to obtain the blood pressure and flow waveform of radial artery. Effects of changes of the electric network model’s parameters on the blood pressure and flow waveform are also analyzed in normal and different pathological conditions(arteriosc lerosis and hypertension). The results of simulation show that the parameters of the model can well reflect the physiological significations of the upper limb arterial system; the analytic and computational methods are of fairly high precision and fast convergence for the model; and the model can simulate effectively the hemodynamic characteristics of upper limb arteries under normal and different pathological conditions.
