This report describes a 5-year research program to develop instrumentation, experimental protocols, mathematical models and tools, and validation techniques to determine and describe the biomechanical behavior of living tissues. The particular focus has been the study of non-load-bearing internal organs that have not been addressed significantly in the literature. These results will contribute to developing realistic simulation tools for medical training and medical device and procedure development. The report summarizes ...
This research project, in its fourth year, continues to contribute to the suite of instruments, models and data for describing soft biological tissues. Accomplishments include: our first publication of our techniques and results in a major biomechanics journal; the development of a useful and detailed model describing the poroviscous, hyperelastic character of tissues; development of inverse techniques for the extraction of the characteristic parameters from this model, using existing pathological ...
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