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Background and Purpose: Most current studies on the passive biomechanical properties of esophageal tissues directly use the exponential strain energy function (SEF) to fit and calculate the constants of the constitutive equation. In the context of the extensive application of exponential SEF, in-depth research on the exponential SEF is still lacking. The purpose of this study is to combine the exponential function with the polynomial SEF to obtain the most suitable constitutive equation to describe the three-dimensional passive behavior of the esophagus. Methods: fresh pig esophagus with a length of 13 cm in the middle position was selected as esophageal samples. The esophageal sample was separated into muscular layer and mucosal layer with surgical scissors. Stretch–inflation mechanical tests of the intact esophagus, esophageal muscular, and esophageal mucosa were carried out on a triaxial test machine. The external radius, axial force, and internal pressure were recorded simultaneously. The seven-parameter Fung-type SEF and several new SEFs combining polynomials and exponents were used to fit the experimental data curves. Results: The stretch–inflation test data and the morphometric parameters at the zero-stress state of the layered esophagus were obtained. The new SEF with polynomial and exponential combination is more suitable to describe describing the three-dimensional passive biomechanical properties of esophageal tissue. Among them, New-Fung13 SEF is more suitable for describing the passive biomechanical properties of intact esophageal tissue, Sokolis-Fung13 SEF is more suitable for the esophageal muscle layer, and New-Fung10 SEF is more suitable for the esophageal mucosa. The constitutive parameters of the optimal constitutive model for each layer of the esophagus were obtained.
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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51675447) and Key R & D project of Sichuan Province (2018JY0552); KeZhou Li provided clinical information and suggestions.
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Ren, P., Deng, X., Li, K. et al. 3D biomechanical properties of the layered esophagus: Fung-type SEF and new constitutive model. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 20, 1775–1788 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-021-01476-y
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