Quantitative assessment of collagen fibre orientations from two-dimensional images of soft biological tissues

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 76, 2012, Pages 3081-3093

  Schriefl, Andreas J ^a   Reinisch, Andreas J ^a   Sankaran, Sethuraman ^b   Pierce, David M ^a   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artery; Collagen; Constitutive modelling; Multiphoton microscopy; Orientation

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MORPHOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

ARTERY; AUTOMATED METHODS; COLLAGEN FIBRES; COLLAGEN MORPHOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; DISPERSION MODELS; DISPERSION PARAMETERS; ERROR ENTROPY; FIBRE ORIENTATION; FIBRE REINFORCEMENTS; FOURIER POWER SPECTRUM; LENGTH SCALE; LOCATION PARAMETERS; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MESH DENSITY; MULTI-PHOTON MICROSCOPY; PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; THREE PARAMETERS; TISSUE MORPHOLOGY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

FIBERS;

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ENTROPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFT TISSUE;

EID: 84867467926     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0339     Document Type: Article

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