The invention provides materials and methods for modeling human blood
vessels. Including panels of anatomically accurate vascular phantoms, such
as carotid artery phantoms, comprising a range of stenotic conditions and
other geometric variations; methods of making anatomically accurate
vascular phantoms using stereolithography with an input data set
representation of a natural vascular lumenal surface to construct an
anatomically accurate vascular phantom comprising a physical
representation of the surface; and methods of using the subject phantoms
and panels of phantoms, such as methods of measuring a parameter of fluid
flow through a panel of anatomically accurate vascular phantoms comprising
a range of stenotic conditions.