Simulation of the biomechanical behavior of the skin in virtual surgical applications by finite element method

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1514-1521

  Molinari, Elisa ^a   Fato, Marco ^a   De Leo, Gianluca ^a,c,d   Riccardo, Daniela ^a,b,e   Beltrame, Francesco ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Datasiel SpA   (Italy)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d American Medical Informatics Association and Public Health Association   (United States)

^e AEI ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

FEM; Presurgical planning; Simulation of plastic surgical operations; Skin biomechanical behavior; Soft tissue modeling

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC SURGEONS; PLASTIC SURGERY; SILICON GRAPHICS WORKSTATIONS; VIRTUAL SURGICAL APPLICATIONS;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; SURGERY;

SKIN;

SILICON;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORCE; GEOMETRY; MECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCALP; SIMULATION; SKIN FUNCTION; SOFT TISSUE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN; SOFTWARE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 26844529413     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.851529     Document Type: Article

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