Fig. 8

A Streamline visualization of the blood flow through the aortic arch during the systolic cardiac phase. The coloring of the streamlines indicates a strong asymmetric distribution of velocity values with the highest values near the arch’s outer radius. B Map of the time averaged WSS magnitude values, obtained from one exemplary mouse. In the background maximum intensity projections of the magnitude image are shown. The asymmetric distribution of velocity values leads into a large gradient of WSS values with the largest values near the outer radius of the aortic arch