Computational stress analyses of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are of great interest for individual aneurysm rupture risk assessment. The vast majority of patient-specific stress analyses are based on features seen at computed tomography, which is incapable of resolving material heterogeneity within intraluminal thrombus. Using T1-weighted black blood MRI, we imaged and explicitly modeled MRI-discerned intraluminal thrombus heterogeneity in multiple AAA stress analyses. Results demonstrate a limited effect of thrombus heterogeneity on the predicted vessel wall stresses, but suggest a possible role for MRI to inform thrombus material stiffness assignment in stress computations.
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