Numerical simulation techniques to study the structural response of the human chest following median sternotomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 623-630

  Bruhin, Raimund ^a   Stock, Ulrich Alfred ^b   Drücker, Jan Peter ^b   Azhari, Tarek ^b   Wippermann, Jens ^b   Albes, Johannes Maximilian ^b   Hintze, Dagmar ^b   Eckardt, Stephan ^b   Könke, Carsten ^b   Wahlers, Thorsten ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; STRESS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX; WIRE FIXATION;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE WIRES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTURE; STERNUM; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THORACIC WALL; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 22544467434     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.03.043     Document Type: Article

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