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The aim of this study was to quantify in vivo aortic wall stretch in healthy participants and aTAA patients using displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) magnetic resonance imaging. Moreover, aTAA wall stretch between surgical and nonsurgical patients was investigated. Finally, DENSE measurements were compared to reference-standard mechanical testing on aTAA specimens from surgical repairs. In total, 18 subjects were recruited, six healthy participants and 12 aTAA patients, for this prospective study. Electrocardiogram-gated DENSE imaging was performed to measure systole\u2013diastole wall stretch, as well as the ratio of aTAA stretch to unaffected descending thoracic aorta stretch. Free-breathing and breath-hold DENSE protocols were used. Uniaxial tensile testing-measured indices were correlated to DENSE measurements in five harvested specimens. in vivo aortic wall stretch was significantly lower in aTAA compared to healthy subjects (1.75\u00b11.44% versus 5.28\u00b11.92%, respectively, P\u2009=\u20090.0004). There was no correlation between stretch and maximum aTAA diameter (P\u2009=\u20090.56). The ratio of aTAA to unaffected thoracic aorta wall stretch was significantly lower in surgical candidates compared to nonsurgical candidates (0.993\u00b10.011 versus 1.017\u00b10.016, respectively, P\u2009=\u20090.0442). Finally, in vivo aTAA wall stretch correlated to wall failure stress and peak modulus of the intima (P\u2009=\u20090.017 and P\u2009=\u20090.034, respectively), while the stretch ratio correlated to whole-wall thickness failure stretch and stress (P\u2009=\u20090.013 and P\u2009=\u20090.040, respectively). 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