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In this work a tissue aspiration method for the in-vivo determination of biological soft tissue material parameters is presented. An explicit axisymmetric finite element simulation of the aspiration experiment is used together with a Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to estimate the material model parameters in an inverse parameter determination process. Soft biological tissue is modelled as a viscoelastic, non-linear, nearly incompressible, isotropic continuum. Viscoelasticity is accounted for by a quasi-linear formulation. The aspiration method is validated experimentally with a synthetic material. In-vivo (intra-operatively during surgical interventions) and ex-vivo experiments were performed on human uteri.
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Kauer, M., Vuskovic, V., Dual, J., Szekely, G., Bajka, M. (2001). Inverse Finite Element Characterization of Soft Tissues. In: Niessen, W.J., Viergever, M.A. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2001. MICCAI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45468-3_16
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