Biomechanics of Living Organs (Hardcover)

Part 1: Constitutive laws for biological living tissues

1. Hyperelasticity Modeling for Incompressible Passive Biological Tissues
2. Current Hyperelastic Models for Contractile Tissues: Application to Cardiovascular Mechanics
3. Visco-hyperelastic strain energy function
4. Constitutive Formulations for Soft Tissue Growth and Remodeling
5. Strain energy function for damaged tissues

Part 2: Passive soft organs

6. Brain - Biomechanical modeling of brain soft tissues for medical applications
7. Oesophagus - Modeling of esophageal structure and function in health and disease
8. Aorta - Mechanical properties, histology, and biomechanical modeling
9. Arteries & Coronaries Arterial - Wall Stiffness and Atherogenesis in Human Coronaries
10. Breast - Clinical applications of breast biomechanics
11. Liver - Non linear Biomechanical model of the Liver
12. Abdomen - Mechanical modeling and clinical applications
13. Small Intestine
14. Bladder/prostate/rectum - Biomechanical Models of the Mobility of Pelvic Organs in the Context of Prostate Radiotherapy
15. Uterus - Biomechanical modeling of uterus. Application to a childbirth simulation
16. Skin - Skin mechanics

Part 3: Active soft organs

17. Skeletal muscle - Three-dimensional modeling of active muscle tissue: The why, the how, and the future
18. Face - Computational modelling of the passive and active components of the face
19. Tongue - Human tongue biomechanical modeling
20. Upper airways - FRANK: a Hybrid 3D Biomechanical Model of the Head and Neck
21. Heart - Adaptive reorientation of myofiber orientation in a model of biventricular cardiac mechanics: the effect of triaxial active stress, passive shear stiffness, and activation sequence

Part 4: Musculo-skeletal models

22. Spine - Relative contribution of structure and materials in the biomechanical behavior of the human spine
23. Thigh - Modeling of the Thigh: a 3D deformable approach considering muscle interactions
24. Calf - Subject-specific computational prediction of the effects of elastic compression in the calf
25. Foot - Biomechanical modeling of the foot