Modeling of Kidney Hemodynamics: Probability-Based Topology of an Arterial Network
Fig 9
Simulated vascular structure with exponential distribution of afferent arterioles along the tree (KSABT).
Top panel: 3D visualizations of vascular trees with Dstop = 22 μm and Dinitial = 200 μm and 70 μm (left and right panels, respectively). Middle panel: Vessel length as a function of the vessel diameter (left) and daughter vessel diameter as a function of the parent vessel diameter (afferent arterioles excluded from calculations)(right) for simulation (blue) and data described in Ref [15] (red). Bottom panel: Probability distribution of the distances between two neighboring afferent arterioles obtained from simulations (blue) and the approximation to the experimental data (red).