Laboratory tests for strength paramaters of brain aneurysms.

The presentation is focused on the analysis of biophysical properties of cerebral aneurysms, diagnosed and delineated in living human individuals. An aneurysm is a bulging out of a part of the wall of a blood vessel. The aim of our research was to delineate flow patterns inside the aneurysm and its parent artery, to estimate stresses at critical points of the aneurysm wall, to model the haemodynamic effect of different surgical and endovascular tools in order to define the optimal one in a particular case, and to estimate the likelihood of a later aneurysm rupture. For this reason we carried out a lot of different laboratory tests to analyse the mechanical parameters of the aneurysm wall. We made a comparative study of some material models reported in the literature to describe the mechanical response of arteries. These are models for incompressible materials. For this reason we perform uniaxial and biaxial measurements to have appropriate parameters for the models of underlying material.